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Jan. 19th, 2006 10:36 am
dianec42: Joshua tree against a blue sky (Cartoon2)
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From the summary of the LA Times article Most Beaches Set to Reopen After Huge Sewage Spill:

"Environmentalists and elected officials are asking why an apparent power failure caused the release of 2 million gallons of affluent."

Affluent what?! Inquiring minds want to know!

Date: 2006-01-19 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cahwyguy.livejournal.com
That's a bunch of rich shit (pardon my language) :-)

Date: 2006-01-19 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com
1. Well, it IS Santa Monica, after all. (-:

2. You've seen MY language in this journal, right? Totally pardoned.

Date: 2006-01-19 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whc.livejournal.com
Not only do they abuse the english language, they were supposed to have fixed the sewage spill problems 20 years ago!

Date: 2006-01-19 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hammercock.livejournal.com
Ah, the effluent of the affluent...

Date: 2006-01-19 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feste-sylvain.livejournal.com
That was a bumper sticker in Vermont in the 1980s. It seems that some yuppie jackasses who bought the Killington ski resort assumed that the mountain they were standing on was a large pile of dirt, so they used gray water from the hotel for snow-making.

Of course, the Green Mountains are not large piles of dirt; they are barely-eroded chunks of granite. The gray water did not seep into a large spongy receptacle; instead, it trickled and streamed down the mountainside.

Thus, many Vermonters slapped a bumper sticker onto their cars which read:

Killington: where the affluent meet the effluent

Date: 2006-01-19 07:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ceo
I wonder if Sugarloaf was doing this for a while. There was a time in the late '80s when, on warm days, the manmade snow would stink something nasty.

Can't have been all gray water, I would think. You need a lot of water for snowmaking, especially at an area the size of Killington with near-100% coverage.

Date: 2006-01-19 09:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com
No shit, there we were...

Date: 2006-01-20 06:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] usqueba.livejournal.com
It's a new noun. The affluents, maaaaan! I bought some at the store.

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