Resort’s Snow Won’t Be Pure This Year; It’ll Be Sewage

[groovedaddy]

(The sh#% will literally be hitting the fan! gd)

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Klee Benally, a member of the Navajo tribe, has gone to the mountains just north of here to pray, and he has gone to get arrested. He has chained himself to excavators; he has faced down bulldozers. For 10 years, the soft-spoken activist has fought a ski resort’s expansion plans in the San Francisco Peaks that include clear-cutting 74 acres of forest and piping treated sewage effluent onto a mountain to make snow.

But he appears to be losing the battle.

In February, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the ski resort’s upgrade plans, ending a legal saga fought by a coalition of environmental groups and 13 American Indian tribes, which consider the mountain sacred and view the wastewater snow as a desecration.

This coming ski season, the resort, Arizona Snowbowl, will become the first ski resort in the world to use 100 percent sewage effluent to make artificial snow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/us/arizona-ski-resorts-sewage-plan-creates-uproar.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120927

[BlueToTheBone]

1. What a sad way to start my day.

I wonder how people will feel falling down in shit?

[liberal N proud]

2. Makes me glad that I don't ski

[BlueToTheBone]

4. Me too. I won't have bad karma from

trampling over someone's holy sites.

[madokie]

3. My step son works in a fresh water treatment plant

and he put it best when he said no matter we are drinking the cities upstream from us waste water whether we want to admit it to ourselves or not. How the system works is water is brought into a fresh water plant from the rivers or streams and treated then it is used by us however and then it goes to the wastewater plant where it is again treated then returned to the river or creek. Only thing is we're not drinking our own waste water rather the cities upstream of us.
Not many cities use aquifers for their sole source of fresh water. Around here anyway.

How I see it anyway