An interesting article about awarding contracts to start on $80-million-a-piece storage tank project should make us realize that long term political failure is one of many contributing factors taking this town down the tubes.
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You know these retards running this city and a lot of others have no clue. Now if one was to go north there is a city who is thinking about what to do with their crap outside of making huge ass storage tanks for it.
ReplyDeleteYes my friends if one was to head up to Milwaukee and check out the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District you would find a very cool operation and one that puts money back into the city sewer plan from all that crap that those who live in that city make.
The District captures wastewater from the metropolitan Milwaukee area, including local industries. This water is then treated at the Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with microbes to digest nutrients that are found in it. Cleaned water is then returned to Lake Michigan. The resulting microbes are then dried at temperatures ranging from 900⁰-1200⁰F. Surviving pathogens are unlikely and daily tests confirm the absence of pathogens.
From this they produce Milorganite and it is the trademark of a biosolids fertilizer produced by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. The Milorganite program is one of the world’s largest recycling efforts; the low impact formulation was designed to recycle valuable nutrients for use on turf and gardens, reducing the need for manufactured nutrients or mined materials for fertilization. Milorganite contains virtually no salts, so it never burns plants – even in the hottest temperatures and driest conditions. You also don’t have to water it in; it will stay in the soil ready to work when moisture comes later. Each application feeds for 8-10 weeks, resulting in fewer applications. Heat dried biosolids contain slow release organic nitrogen, largely water insoluble phosphorus bound with iron and aluminum and high organic matter.[1] Milorganite releases 85% of its nitrogen slowly as your turf grows, generating balanced growth. Milorganite’s 4% Iron enhances the color of your turf throughout the 8-10 week. Milorganite is sold throughout the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as a golf course and home lawn and garden fertilizer. The name Milorganite is a contraction of the phrase Milwaukee Organic Nitrogen, and was the result of a 1925 naming contest held in National Fertilizer Magazine.
Holly Crap 1925 that is how long this stuff has been going on and most have no idea it is. Milorganite is tested daily for the presence of heavy metals and pathogens. Milorganite surpasses the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) "Exceptional Quality" criteria, which establishes the strictest concentration limits in the fertilizer industry for heavy metals, allowing Milorganite to be used on food crops. Milorganite is also certified by the USDA as a bio-based product since it is derived from renewable materials.
Now since KC has such issues with their crap would this not be a time to maybe think along these lines of what to do with all this crap? I use the Milorganite product and have for years it is great stuff costs about 15 bucks a 40 lb. bag at Grass Pad. Plus it is way cheaper than most any other fertilizer.
Yes I do believe KC should look hard at this program. If I was a city leader I know I sure would. But then what do I know I have way too much common sense and education to speak out on matters such as this.
We use our crap in land application and make tons of money from the sale of soy beans! Other cities have had failures with the Milorganite product and have done recalls. The Milwaukee sewer tunnels are state of art and design that should be reviewed for best practices in our area.
ReplyDeleteThe people at 12th and Oak don't care about boring municipal issues like sewers, public safety, fire hydrants, streets, or any of the rest of the basic elements that provide an environment where both residents and businesses can thrive.
ReplyDeleteKCMO government is an amateur ral estate operation and tax money distribution system focused on a handful of insiders, racial extortionists, downtown boosters, and developers supported by an occasional election run by consultants who try to get the public to believe that elected officials are actually trying to look out for them. And the employees of the city, including the police, are every bit as much ignored as the residents.
And now, on to the streetcar, the All Star Game, and the downtown hotel.
And the voters will support them all, just like they always do!