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[dianec42]

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!

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

That's a bunch of rich shit (pardon my language) :-)

[whc.livejournal.com]

Not only do they abuse the english language, they were supposed to have fixed the sewage spill problems 20 years ago!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Ah, the effluent of the affluent...

[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

[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.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

1. Well, it IS Santa Monica, after all. (-:

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

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

No shit, there we were...

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

It's a new noun. The affluents, maaaaan! I bought some at the store.