Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the South - WAPO

[DBoon]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/septic-tanks-rising-waters-environment-health/

For all the obvious challenges facing South Florida as sea levels surge, one serious threat to public health and the environment remains largely out of sight, but everywhere: Septic tanks.

Millions of them dot the American South, a region grappling with some of the planet’s fastest-rising seas, according to a Washington Post analysis. At more than a dozen tide gauges from Texas to North Carolina, sea levels have risen at least 6 inches since 2010 — a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades.

Along those coastlines, swelling seas are driving water tables higher and creating worries in places where septic systems abound, but where officials often lack reliable data about their location or how many might already be compromised.

“These are ticking time bombs under the ground that, when they fail, will pollute,” said Andrew Wunderley, executive director of the nonprofit Charleston Waterkeeper, which monitors water quality in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

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[we can do it]

1. Let them eat shit.

[Attilatheblond]

2. Nature has ways to deal

with purveyors of crap. Time to stop listening to GOP pols and other climate change deniers. Ditto folks in the worsening tornado belt and drier, hotter Southwest, and fancy schmancy home owners on coasts who love tax cuts more than their environment.

[Think. Again.]

4. it's waaay past that time...

...I would almost say it's too late.

[Attilatheblond]

8. I share that fear.

Been noticing signs of change in nature for two or three decades now. But we live in a transactional world and changing our value system is just not what the top income groups is willing to do.

I used to have hope. No longer.

[Kaleva]

12. We are very near the tipping point or already past it

Time has run out .

[Think. Again.]

3. "Could"???

It's already happening, for years now, and WILL be getting worse.

I wish I could find it humorous how the for-profit media keeps pretending this is all something new and isn't really all that serious.

[Lovie777]

5. EWWWWWWWWWWWWW....................

more human trash in the oceans.

[Fla Dem]

7. Not just the ocean. If septic systems are flooded and back up, its sewage

will be in your back yards, streets, school yards. In other words, shit will be everywhere.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

6. Gonna be one disgusting reef. nt

[republianmushroom]

9. Can also float some caskets.

Beware of the Zombies and turds.

[Kaleva]

11. Bio-engineer zombies that eat raw sewage

SHIIIIIT! SHIIIIIT! Instead of Brains! Brains!.

[airplaneman]

10. Not to mention that 50% of all USA landfills both active and retired are within 10 feet of sea level n/t.

[dalton99a]

13. Kick

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