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Drinking water from the potty
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dogs do it all the time, of course. In a couple of years, so could the people who live in these parts.
Well, not literally.
A plan to return “highly cleaned and disinfected wastewater” from Gwinnett’s treatment plant to Lake Lanier moved a step closer to reality last week.
The Gwinnett Board of Commissioners awarded a $26 million contract to John D. Stephens Inc. to build an 8.4-mile pipeline from the F. Wayne Hill plant to the lake.
The new line, which is expected to return up to 40 million gallons of potable water to the lake every day, is scheduled to be completed in 2009.
“By returning our water to its source, we’ll be helping folks downstream along the Chattahoochee instead of sending it the other way to the Atlantic Ocean,” Board Chairman Charles Bannister said.
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By Bruce Wilcox
November 20, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this
The more you flush, the more water you’ll add to Lanier, can’t wait to tell the dog.
By Chuck
November 20, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this
Bannister has fed the public a continuous flow of crap since his term began, so why not?
By Charles in Charge
November 20, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this
Presumably Bannister will take credit for this. The only problem with that is that when the facility was conceived, this was part of the plan. OK, so I’m still trying to discover ANYTHING that he has actually accomplished for us, but his record is pretty thin. Perhaps his handlers can come up with something.
By Bonedaddy
November 20, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
Re-elect Wayne Hill
By Michael H. Smith
November 20, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this
No more sliding down the Bannister or rolling down the Hill, Green up Gwinnett.
By Bruce Wilcox
November 20, 2007 1:17 PM | Link to this
Paid for by the Suck Up To Green campaign.
By Joe
November 20, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this
Negativity is for morons - got a better candidate?
By Steve
November 20, 2007 4:34 PM | Link to this
The water coming out of the Hill plant is cleaner than the water in the lake. The water currently drains downstream to Jackson lake, past Macon and goes into the Atlantic near Brunswick. I think it is far better to clean it up, put it back in the lake, and eventually reuse it than to divert water from one watershed to another.
By Bruce Wilcox
November 20, 2007 7:39 PM | Link to this
Joe, who knows, are those the only two that will allowed in the race this year?
Oh I forget it is Gwinnett, it’s always Good Republican against Bad Republican, duh. Ever wonder things never change in Gwinnett?
By Brock
November 20, 2007 10:45 PM | Link to this
The county has been trying to do this for a long while, but Lanier homeowners fought it. Now that their lake investments are dwindling with the lake, they’re for it. It’s a good plan. Direct reuse may not be far off either.
By Michael H. Smith
November 21, 2007 12:11 AM | Link to this
Of course he doesn’t Joe and he sucks and he sucks and he sucks.
By Bruce Wilcox
November 21, 2007 12:32 AM | Link to this
Little childish wouldn’t you say Smithy, looks like you tied on a good one again.
By Michael H. Smith
November 21, 2007 12:44 AM | Link to this
And…. Brock, if Lorraine Green was Chairman direct reuse would be even closer. If the county was not so cash strapped, now that growth has declined, there is 900 acres in Buford the county owns that no doubt Commissioner Green would probably just love to build a reservoir on to store some of that “sterile water” that will be returned to the lake, where the county would have control over that water and not Georgia Power and the Federal Government a.k.a. Army Crop of Engineers.
Commissioner Green is light-years ahead of anyone sitting on the county commission when it comes to the water issue and how water should be used to sustain quality livability and propriety for the county. I’d say she has done a very good job on the other issues too.
We certainly don’t need Democrats after 135 years of BACKWARDS thinking BACKWARDS stepping “dunkies” that have screwed this state royally.
By Michael H. Smith
November 21, 2007 12:47 AM | Link to this
I’d say it looks like New York should find some other place to dump its’ trash than in Georgia.
By Bruce Wilcox
November 21, 2007 12:52 AM | Link to this
Thanks for proving my point Smithy, kind of makes you look backward. You don’t have a clue who the Democratic candidate may be, but it doesn’t matter, sad.
By Michael H. Smith
November 21, 2007 1:08 AM | Link to this
Brucie you are so full it I really don’t know why I waste my time on garbage like you. Guess I should just call Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful and have done with it. Then again, they probably would refuse haul off toxic waste.
And, by the way, if you got another liberal loser, ready to crash and burn, then bring it on.
By Bruce Wilcox
November 21, 2007 1:18 AM | Link to this
You know Smithy, when people see people like you supporting Green, they may take another look, an insulting drunk is not really considered a big endorsement. You really should crawl off to bed.
By Michael H. Smith
November 21, 2007 1:49 AM | Link to this
Bruice, insult is the only game you know. Innuendos, crass comments, personal attacks, endless mindless blather and often under anonymous names. All people have to do is look at what Commissioner Green has done: Broken windows, an ordnance to stop rewarding illegal immigration with taxpayer money and now she actually has plans to insure this county has water even when the next drought occurs.
Brucie, do you need a little cheese with YOUR wine?
All I’ve done is tell the truth and as Harry Truman once said, YOU thought it was hell.
By Ralph
November 21, 2007 5:00 AM | Link to this
Do what the rest of us do Michael - he has no alternative solutions and knows nothing else except to put down others - ignore and pity him. Low sense of self esteem - wow - crips shouldn’t throw stones when living in glass houses. Fortunately, there is intelligent life left in Gwinnett.
By Michael H. Smith
November 21, 2007 6:07 AM | Link to this
I agree Ralph, my apologies to you and rest of the fine folks. I know I should have spared “y’all” the indignities but sometimes you just have to stand up to a low life schoolyard bully.
By Bruce Wilcox
November 21, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this
Taken on the Suck Up Club, what fun, do what your daddies taught you, safety in numbers and never let them see your face.
By Bruce Wilcox
November 21, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
It amazes me, it’s always the same group of conservative lemmings doing the personal attacks, the school yard gangsters. A few years ago the same group of lemmings attacked Hill in favor of Bannister, now it’s attack Bannister in favor of Green. Yet none of you can saee the humor in it? No wonder the South is the brunt of so many jokes.