Posted on Sunday, 26th April 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
Let the dumping, errrr, blending… begin, or as Chad puts it, YAY!!! turds in the lake!!
Sewer overflows begin as heavy rain falls
Combined sanitary and storm sewers in central Milwaukee and eastern Shorewood began overflowing into urban rivers and Lake Michigan Sunday for the first time this year as heavy rains sent millions of gallons of storm water down the sewers and into the deep tunnel, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District officials said.
Yeah, I guess it’s another of those hundred year floods, huh?
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April 26th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I could give a rats a** about dumping ordinary poop-water in the lake in the event of a big storm. A turd isn’t nuclear waste. What I don’t understand is why every rainstorm turns most Bay View streets into Lake Erie, and why I just got done pumping water out of my newly redone basement because, oopsie, it rained. (And we all know that when it rains my wonderful Milwaukee rain seweres on the MAIN STREET in front of my home back up and start screwing with the neighborhood.)
April 26th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
If we’re going to shut off the deep tunnel every time it rains, what did we build it for in the first place? Wasn’t the whole point that we could dump sewage into there INSTEAD OF dumping it into the lake, and then treat it later when it’s not raining and taxing the water treatment system?
April 26th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Coop- that’s what the Milwaukee Journal [as it was then] assured us was the whole point. They have falsely denied this ever since it became clear what a boondoggle the Deep Tunnel is, but the paper at the time slanted every possible article as well as editorial to get the voters to approve the DT over separate storm/waste sewers.
I note that the MMSD website acknowledges the unsanitary overflow, but their overflow map to let me know where this is happening has not been updated since February 16.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Thanks for the info Lloyd. Some good info there…like it looks like we averaged around 3 inches of rain in the last day or so.
Dan, I believe the phrase is “blended lake poopy.” According to the MMSD website, they’ve been “blending” since 11:30am on April 26th.
April 27th, 2009 at 6:54 am
It’s more like 2.56 inches from 7 am Saturday (the first MMSD rain gauge recorded precip at 8 am) until 5 am this morning. The “blending” began with an average of 1.67 inches falling in 28 hours, with the outright overflow beginning with 2.13 inches over 31 hours.
April 27th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Oops; had a math error. I stupidly assumed that the fact the IDs on the gauges went to 24 meant there were 24 gauges (with 23 working). Since there are only 21 gauges (with 20 working), here’s the updated totals:
- 1.93 inches between the start of the rain and the “blending”
- 2.45 inches between the start of the rain and the combined-sewer dumping
- 2.95 inches up until 5 am this morning
April 27th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I’ve mentioned this before, this dumping has been going on since I moved here…. 12 years ago! When are they going to “get a handle” on this? How long are they going to continue dumping in our lake?
April 27th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
We spent a few billion dollars on the Deep Tunnel that was said to protect us from all but the 100 year flood… you know, the one we get 7 or 8 times a year.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
ROLFLMAO Patrick
April 28th, 2009 at 8:29 am
The dumping will continue until the suburbs pay for the rebuilding of Milwaukee sewers. Since I don’t feel like paying for Milwaukee’s mistakes, they’ll continue.