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Break the Silence
 |  |  |  | Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
< on 5/14/2010 6:16 AM >
|  | | | It just took a little research, some brief social engineering with the security guard and some dubious name-dropping to be permitted to drive into this large, active municipal sewerage treatment plant and have free roam of it with a camera for a few hours. All of the buildings were unlocked. This definitely was one of the coolest active sites I've ever explored, and easily the coolest solo exploration.
I know a decent amount about water treatment plants and have explored plenty of abandoned ones before. I've belly-crawled through small abandoned pipes that once carried sewerage or sludge (sludge refers to the solid matters that settle out of sewerage) or something in between. I've spent many hours trudging through dark CSOs (sewers, basically) with bits of toilet paper stuck to my boots. The concept of sewerage has just never really grossed me out.
Until I finally got to see a large active water treatment plant in person. Seeing the huge rapids of brown liquid rushing down trenches and through basins and splashing about, sometimes so high that some of it manages to splash onto you as you watch from the mesh catwalk above the aeration tanks...it was worse than I ever imagined. But the worst part was the smell. It was an extremely hot, humid day and the entire place smelled like the most vile fart you could imagine.
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The first stage of water treatment is to remove the heaviest non-organic solid matter from the water; the stuff that very quickly settles out is called grit. This doesn't include poop because poop isn't dense enough to settle this quickly. It mostly consists of sand, dirt, stones and hair. And it looks like this:
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This would be poop. Raining down from the sky.
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The big silver dome is called a sludge digester. This is where the solid matters that precipitated from the liquid sewerage in the settling tanks are digested by anaerobic bacteria. The dome structure is actually made of canvas; if you touch it, it feels soft. And it might be quite nice to sleep on in the winter since these are kept warm year round.
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Yes, that's poop.
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This is a settling tank, where the sewerage sits still for a long time while the solid matter sinks to the bottom and the liquid stays at the top. The water trickling over the edge is ready to move on to the next stage of the process. Sludge is collected from the bottom of the tank and sent to the sludge digester.
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Yes, that's poop too.
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Yes, that's also poop.
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How can you not look at something when the sign says not to look at it?! I would have been less likely to want to look at them if there hadn't been a sign. And I feel that this general principal has very relevant UE implications.
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Different pipe colors in a water treatment plant have significance, as per government mandate. Purple pipes carry reclaimed water, or water that is deemed clean enough to be sent back out into the environment, but still non-potable and not considered clean enough for municipal water supplies.
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This is an empty settling tank:
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Tanks of strong acid:
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I just smiled and nodded at the workers as I walked by.
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Sludge gas refers to the gas produced by the bacteria as they digest the poop inside the sludge digester. Some of this gas gets used as fuel in other parts of the plant.
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And this is where the rest of that sludge gas gets released into the air. They don't even have the dignity to make a nice high smokestack. They aren't kidding when they say no smoking; sludge gas contains a lot of methane, as is indicated by the mandatory orange pieces on the piping, showing, as per the mandated color coding system, that they contain a hazardous chemical.
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This was in the tunnels, which were even hotter than the rest of the plant since they included, among many other things, steam pipes for heating all of the buildings. Also, there were a bunch of frogs that lived down here.
[last edit 5/14/2010 6:54 AM by DJ Craig - edited 3 times]
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess |
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Ashes in the Snow
Location: Raleigh, NC
Gender: Male
Ladder Addict
| | | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 1 on 5/14/2010 6:21 AM >
| | | | so.much.poooooo
I bet you smelled like shit for days after leaving that place lol. But that's really cool that they just let you walk around and take pictures at will.
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Female
I guess.
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 2 on 5/14/2010 6:25 AM >
| | | | I learned back in high school three important things about water/sewage treatment plants.
1. there is more goose shit on the lawns than there is human shit in the whole dam place.
2. Too many people flush tampon applicators and condoms (they make a very awkward looking pile).
3. Never ever touch anything in the wet well.
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aurelie
Location: pacific northwest
Gender: Female
high tech:: low life.
| | | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 3 on 5/14/2010 6:54 AM >
| | | | Posted by Ashes in the Snow
I bet you smelled like shit for days after leaving that place lol.
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He is walking poop, so nobody really noticed. Also, I am going here post haste.
reckless thoughts abide; anachronistic and impulsive.
loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing. |
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
| |  | | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 4 on 5/14/2010 8:36 AM >
| | | | This totally feels like a CORVID exploration!
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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Avius
Location: Washington DC / NOVA
Gender: Male
Wow you guys!
| | | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 5 on 5/14/2010 2:03 PM >
| | | | Ha ha... Simultaneously awesome, gross, and educational!
In places forgotten, tread where you will. -=- http://www.flickr.com/photos/avius/ |
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zkostik
Location: MD, USA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 6 on 6/4/2010 6:17 PM >
| | | | This is awesome! How big is that plant? The only one I've been to was back in Russia and that place was monstrous, like a size of small town (poop town, haha). I think it may very well be seen from space, too bad I don't have any pictures of it. Here's a Google Maps link is anyone want to check out the aerial view to compare to the location above: http://maps.google...eocode=&q=Tomilino,+Province+of+Moscow,+Russian+Federation&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.477264,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=& hnear=Tomilino,+Lyuberetskiy+rayon,+Province+of+Moscow,+Russian+Federation&ll=55.681891,37.948623&spn =0.0188,0.038581&t=h&z=15
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don_corleyone
Location: F/RoX
Gender: Male
I have abandonment issues
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 7 on 6/4/2010 6:32 PM >
| | | | that's nasty.
leave the gun. take the cannoli.
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Mysterea
Gender: Male
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 8 on 6/4/2010 7:09 PM >
| | | | Safety tip when exploring these types of sites:
Don't fall in the aeration basin (the bubbling 'rapids' described above), not because of the bacteria (though that's not good stuff) but because you'll sink like a rock. Can't swim in water that's full of air!
everyone's gotta believe in something... I believe I'll have another drink! |
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bouncewiggle
Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 9 on 6/4/2010 7:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by Ashes in the Snow
I bet you smelled like shit for days after leaving that place lol.
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he didn't really smell much worse than the normal state of things when he used my laptop to edit the photos, actually.
"bouncewiggle, now more entertaining than Jell-O" |
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 10 on 6/5/2010 2:08 AM >
| | | | Disgusting and fascinating.
Abandoned |
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DJ Craig
Moderator
Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Male
Break the Silence
| | | | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 11 on 6/5/2010 5:12 PM >
| | | | Posted by zkostik
This is awesome! How big is that plant?
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I'd say it probably covered about 15-20 acres. Took me about three or four hours to explore.
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess |
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edsel
Location: Under your skin
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 12 on 6/5/2010 6:56 PM >
| | | | Sweet smelly set of poo! I will be adding my own poo to Tennessee's plants next week!
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Radioiron
Location: Richmond, Capitol of the Confederate States
Gender: Male
Process K-14 or die!
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 13 on 6/5/2010 7:48 PM >
| | | | No. 2 is excellent, you rarely see such masterfully bend and arranged conduit like that anymore. It's just mesmerizing to stare at.
There is no problem that cannot be solved by the suitable application of explosives. |
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becckeez
Location: 804
Gender: Female
trippin.
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 14 on 6/5/2010 8:50 PM >
| | | | holy shit, no really.
very very cool 
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Badure
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 15 on 6/7/2010 12:01 PM >
| | | | Anyone see that episode of dirty jobs where he had to replace a pump?
Amazing how full of poop people really are!
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 16 on 6/7/2010 12:40 PM >
| | | | 3 looks like something my cat coughted up.
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elkhart007
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Gender: Male
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 17 on 10/20/2010 11:19 AM >
| | | | Low Pressure Sludge Gas = Artificial farts
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Gutter Monkey
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
Tell me if this tickles
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 18 on 10/20/2010 11:45 AM >
| | | | I love how they still need to mark the taps with "Unsafe water, do not drink" signs in a freakin' sewerage water reclamation plant. I guess they had too many chuckleheads going "Gosh I have a devil of a thirst, I'll just stick my head under this tap and ARGBLARGLLARGBLBLBLB"
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officeninja
Location: Leesburg, VA
Gender: Male
so thats whats next to the data center
| | Re: Fountains of Poop: Active Infil (27 pictures)
<Reply # 19 on 10/20/2010 12:52 PM >
| | | | i can smell that from here, excellent social engineering, and i find it helpful they make sure to tell you not to drink it.
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