"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction."
~ US State Department, 1948
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This is a simple gravity sewer collapse caused by the corrosive effects of H2S. As our antiquated infrastructure falls further into disrepair, this will become more common. Large numbers of pump stations, gravity lines, and force mains across the continent have long outlived their time. Not to mention that many of them were built with inferior (cheapest) equipment at the time chosen by "low bid mania" municipal politicians who would rather buy fireworks than a modern pump control system.
Wastewater treatment in particular is lagging far behind in its ability to adapt new methods and technology.
My suggestion (which will be completely ignored) would be to stop wasting money on unneeded military equipment such as the following example:
"New cargo planes on order for the U.S. Air Force are being delivered straight into storage in the Arizona
desert because the military has no use for them, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. A dozen nearly new C-27J Spartans from Ohio and elsewhere have already been taken out of service and shipped to the so-called boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. Five more are expected to be built by April 2014, all of which are headed to the boneyard unless another use for them is found. The Air Force has spent $567 million on 21 C-27J aircraft since 2007, according to purchasing officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Sixteen had been delivered by the end of September. The Air Force almost had to buy more of the planes against its will, the newspaper found. A solicitation issued from Wright-Patterson in May sought vendors to build more C-27Js, citing Congressional language requiring the military to spend money budgeted for the planes, despite Pentagon protests."
This is just one of now over 70 examples in my meager little collection of data where brand new items are being trashed or stored away until their unusable
Obsolete missiles, new tires, millions of gallons of fuel, new paint, solvents, vests, ammo, you name it and it sits there until it gets either dumped in the ocean or a landfill, gets incinerated or crushed, etc.
We're talking about billions being wasted while some towns have no choice but to sit and smell their antiquated, nearly inoperative sewage systems.
It just shows who represents whom in washington.
We the people...yeah right...