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 Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/07/11 03:57 PM
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Terry Tanner
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Ever wonder why some lakes you fish leaves a scum line on your boat. I live @ Cedar Creek Lake and there is 12 sewer discharges into cedar creek. If you have a white boat and don't wipe it down when you take it out it will start yellowing. Alot of the bass will have sores and growths on them. I have complained to TCEQ and they say its been treated to state specs, but i have seen two different discharges that the water was black. Most all lakes have treated sewer running back in them and they pump it out for drinking water, THATS DISGUSTING. Think about that the next time you take a dip or let your kids swim. That could be the reason there so much sickness in the world today???
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/07/11 05:26 PM
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Bud B
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In most places, I don't think that treated sewage is as big a problem as the untreated sewage from septic systems gone bad. Granbury certainly has a septic system problem.
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/07/11 06:43 PM
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Texan Til I Die
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Ever wonder why some lakes you fish leaves a scum line on your boat. I live @ Cedar Creek Lake and there is 12 sewer discharges into cedar creek. If you have a white boat and don't wipe it down when you take it out it will start yellowing. Alot of the bass will have sores and growths on them. I have complained to TCEQ and they say its been treated to state specs, but i have seen two different discharges that the water was black. Most all lakes have treated sewer running back in them and they pump it out for drinking water, THATS DISGUSTING. Think about that the next time you take a dip or let your kids swim. That could be the reason there so much sickness in the world today??? Actually the TCEQ is right. Discharges from a licensed wastewater (sewer) treatment plant are probably some of the least harmful, and in most cases beneficial, sources of water for a reservoir. Unregulated discharges can be a problem, but those are thankfully few and far between.
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
[Re: Texan Til I Die]
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01/07/11 07:15 PM
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TIM CLINE
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Sewer Plants are very expensive to build and maintian would not have thought you would have 12 of them around Cedar Creek Lake. Sewer plants are very heavily regulated and I doubt they are putting anything in the lake that could hurt the lake. Each dischrage point will be checked up stream and down stream to get a measurement of what the discharge is putting in the system.
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/07/11 07:30 PM
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Terry Tanner
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Thats just it, there not treating it properly. I used to work for a major city and i can tell you first hand that TCEQ does a half a?? job of regulating these cities. I have seen myself raw sewage from a city sewer main more than once going into the lake and TCEQ told me they are trying to correct it without any type of cleanup once they got it corrected. I fish lakes all over Texas and the ones that do not have sewer disharging in them, the fish are healthier looking and your boat stays clean. The ones that disharge sewer into the lake, you will catch alot of fish that look terrible and your boat will get a scum line.--Just another Goverment agency not doing there job.
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/07/11 07:39 PM
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Terry Tanner
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we dont have 12 @ Cedar Creek, You have to count the water shed and creeks for example--Kings creek picks up Terrel, Kaufman. Feeder creek into clear gets one of Athens`plants. Then you have Kemp,Mabank, ECFD, Eustace, and several small outdated sub division plants and i have fished where all 12 dump in.
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/07/11 08:06 PM
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Bud B
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I fish lakes all over Texas and the ones that do not have sewer disharging in them, the fish are healthier looking and your boat stays clean. You're telling me you found a lake in Texas that has healthier looking crappie than Cedar Creek?
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/07/11 08:29 PM
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Terry Tanner
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I'm sorry, was speaking mainly about bass
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/07/11 11:49 PM
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I have been on and around many lakes in different states
in my life time and any time you let any boat or pwc sit
in the water any lenght of time it will collect a scum film,
( Sewer dumping or not )
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
[Re: Terry Tanner]
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01/08/11 09:40 PM
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What do you propose we do with the waste water? Ever wonder why some lakes you fish leaves a scum line on your boat. I live @ Cedar Creek Lake and there is 12 sewer discharges into cedar creek. If you have a white boat and don't wipe it down when you take it out it will start yellowing. Alot of the bass will have sores and growths on them. I have complained to TCEQ and they say its been treated to state specs, but i have seen two different discharges that the water was black. Most all lakes have treated sewer running back in them and they pump it out for drinking water, THATS DISGUSTING. Think about that the next time you take a dip or let your kids swim. That could be the reason there so much sickness in the world today???
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/09/11 01:46 AM
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was on a Lake last spring water level was lower than it had been in a while , we followed a trail of raw sewage into a cove and found a four inch pipe just above the waterline , this people had there sewer ran straight into the lake no septic system! it's still that way we've name it tard cove , found three more like this on this one lake and it's the local water source 
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/09/11 01:47 AM
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/09/11 03:22 AM
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Legendonrichland-chambers
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
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01/09/11 04:40 AM
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North Texas Bass Assasin
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In most places, I don't think that treated sewage is as big a problem as the untreated sewage from septic systems gone bad. Granbury certainly has a septic system problem. definately agree with you but the other issue (treated sewage) is just as bad ... some lake are worse than others (cedar creek) and have been documented well over the years ... something should be done but when will people say enough is enough?
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Re: Dumping Sewer in your local lakes
[Re: Terry Tanner]
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01/09/11 02:39 PM
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Most all lakes have treated sewer running back in them and they pump it out for drinking water, THATS DISGUSTING. What should be done with the waste water after it is treated? If it is not used again for drinking water we would run out of water. You cannot make water. It is the cycle that water takes. We drink it we pee it it gets treated and back to the lake then treated again and we drink again. Working for a major city you should know that.  What did you do for the city?
  Yes I did admit defeat. Good job back to back champion
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