sewage

It’s true that almost all sewage collection systems rely mostly on gravity to do the work of collecting and transporting waste.

In 2015, an unusual incident happened on the construction site for a sewage lift station in British Columbia, Canada.

Lift stations that pump raw sewage and treatment plants that clean it to a level where it’s safe to release back into the environment are energy intensive processes as well.

The entire flow of the smaller Chicago river was reversed, in order to flush sewage and wastewater out of the area.

But don’t forget the related utility we depend on as well: sewage collection.

In December 2019, the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida experienced a series of catastrophic ruptures in a critical wastewater transmission line, releasing raw sewage into local waterways and neighborhoods.

Injection wells are nothing new; deep belowground can be a convenient and out-of-the-way place to dispose of unwanted fluids including sewage, mining waste, saltwater, and CO2.