The Hattiesburg City council has been facing the threat of protest and lawsuits over it's controversial land application treatment method for discharging its waste water through a sprinkler type system installed in Forrest and Lamar Counties. Now, Mary Dryden, Henry Naylor, Kim Bradley, and Carter Carroll have come up with a clever plan to treat waste water in Lamar County.
Dryden and the rest of the council voted in a special called meeting yesterday to abandon land application in favor of aerial application; thereby eliminating any land zoning blocking construction of the system.
The plan would construct a pipeline from the City's lagoons to Camp Shelby. From there the waste water would be pumped onto DC-10 aircraft, much like the ones used to treat Forest fires. The waste water would then be discharged aerially over Forrest, Lamar, Jones, and Covington Counties. According to Dryden,
We don't need a land use permit if the waste water is discharged aerially, and as long as it's done at altitudes over 15,000 feet, federal regulations say we can spray this wherever we want to. All the city has to do is treat the water to secondary standards, and we comply with EPA minimum standards.
A local group of concerned citizens from Lamar County told the Hattiesburg Patriot,
We aren't taking this woman's crap. We are suing her stupid butt in court."
Somebody please say this is an April fools joke !!!!!!!
Ha ha! They’ve been spewing it in the air here for decades….
From bad to worse!
Ha.
Dumping at night. Watch for low flying aircraft.
April Fool!
How in the hell is dropping waste water from 15000 feet safe. I’m pretty sure when one of those planes misses a target the city will be sued. Not to mention the price of flying those planes when gas goes backup.
Shame on you Hattiesburg Patriot- now you have given them another wonderful idea.
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Lol
Tell me this is a April Fools joke…..
For what they are planning to pay for all of their ridiculous ideas would it not be cheaper to clean up the existing lagoons and add to them (they have land there) which is what was proposed several years ago when they payed for companies to come and look at the plant when the city was having the odor problem?
Drop the solid matter on top of Hattiesburg City Hall.
I suggest you fly that plane over hattiesburg and dump it, Hattiesburg is so dirty, they will never notice.
Not Funny…Where do you live? Maybe on a deserted Island?
Soooo someplace will get a deluge of poop falling from the sky!!! Watch out skydivers!!!!!
you will no longer be sure that it is bird poop that just hit your windshield
Wow!!
April fools? I hope.
Surely
this city council are fools all 12 months
The city of Hattiesburg owns a few hundred acres of useless land around the sewage lagoons including the old city dump on james st why can’t they just clear it and build the spray fields there beside the lagoon.
Size of spray field the EPA would require is in the few thousand acres.
There probably is a few thousand acres there
Certain people wouldn’t get their money.
Bottle it up and give the city council a nice warm enema with it #chitbomb
I am calling April fools on this!!! It HAS to be a joke!