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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the South - WAPO
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 planets 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
(12,697 posts)Attilatheblond
(3,718 posts)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.
(15,735 posts)...I would almost say it's too late.
Attilatheblond
(3,718 posts)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
(37,625 posts)Time has run out .
Think. Again.
(15,735 posts)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
(14,049 posts)more human trash in the oceans.
Fla Dem
(25,199 posts)will be in your back yards, streets, school yards. In other words, shit will be everywhere.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,317 posts)republianmushroom
(16,493 posts)Beware of the Zombies and turds.
Kaleva
(37,625 posts)SHIIIIIT! SHIIIIIT! Instead of Brains! Brains!.