Showing posts with label Photo History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photo History. Show all posts

Thursday, November 23, 2017

A California Thanksgiving

A California Thanksgiving
The Thanksgiving holiday traditionally revolves around a huge feast with family and friends, wherever you are. But if you're spending the holiday in San Diego County, you can add some new traditions to the day, by celebrating Thanksgiving with a San Diego twist.

 
 
 

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Visitor - Elegant Egret

Visitor - Elegant Egret

They are big, elegant and plentiful, but how do you tell if that large white bird at the edge of the lake or feeding in a field is a great egret or one of its smaller cousins? Bird watchers in San Diego can commonly find three kinds of egrets hanging around local lakes, bays, marshes and open fields. Their stark white color, graceful flight and large size make them standouts in the natural world they inhabit. Oma enjoyed her visit with this large and graceful bird. 


Visitor - Elegant Egret

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Happy Birthday Crue Stone

Happy Birthday Crue Stone
Happy Birthday Crue Stone - One today!
Opa and the Birthday 🎉 Boy-Crue Stone
#Prince Crue Stone
Someone found the chocolate cake! happy birthday Crue Stone!
Birthday present time.
The party has not begun until someone is wearing a bag on their head!
👅 smash cake Crue Stone 🎉

Saturday, October 21, 2017

San Diego Storm Water and the Hepatitis A Outbreak

San Diego Storm Water and the Hepatitis A Outbreak

Is San Diego In Compliance With Their Own Storm Water Regulations?


The San Diego Storm Water Management Unit's main focus is in implementing permitting, compliance, and other activities to reduce pollutants in municipal, construction, and industrial storm water runoff

The City of San Diego enacted San Diego Municipal Code (SDMC) §43.03 entitled Storm Water Management and Discharge Control in 1993, commonly referred to as the City’s storm water ordinance. This ordinance, in a nutshell, makes it unlawful for any person to discharge non-storm water into the City’s storm water conveyance system.

For contractors, this means that concrete slurry, stucco, sediments, paint, and other disposal of materials into the street gutter or storm drain are illegal discharges.

The intent of the ordinance is to protect and enhance the water quality of our watercourses, water bodies, and wetlands in a manner consistent with the federal Clean Water Act. The storm water conveyance system collects storm water and urban runoff containing pollutants and discharges these flows untreated into the creeks, rivers, bays, and ocean.

The STORM WATER STANDARDS Manuel (January 20, 2012) is one hundred and seventy-nine pages deep. In addition, the enforcement remedies have been increased to maximum civil penalties or fines of $10,000 per day per violation; up from $2500!

San Diego Storm Water and the Hepatitis A Outbreak


Back in March of 2017, San Diego Health Officials declared a Hepatitis A Outbreak. The county explained that Hepatitis A was spreading “through contact with a fecally contaminated environment.” This disease is a highly contagious liver infection caused by a virus. It is spread person-to-person typically through poor sanitation practices, such as not washing hands after using the restroom.

San Diego Storm Water and the Hepatitis A Outbreak
However, the problem was mostly ignored until September 2017 and then only after three hundred and thirty cases were documented and fifteen people died from Hepatitis A.  It became the second largest outbreak in the United States.

Then "America's Finest City" sprang into action and immediately begin power-washing our streets with bleach to fight a deadly hepatitis outbreak

San Diego Storm Water and the Hepatitis A Outbreak

Contractors (Clean Harbors) started spraying down areas with a diluted household bleach solution. The procedure, as prescribed by the county, involves first spraying down hazardous items such as human waste or needles, waiting 10 minutes, removing the contaminated items, then spraying the area again with bleach. After that, it calls for pressure-washing the area with water.

It is set to be repeated every two weeks, with weekly "spot maintenance," according to county guidelines.

My concern is that in every photo and/or video found of the cleanup efforts, the contaminated water, chlorine and bleach are just being allowed to drain into the City’s storm water conveyance system!

What research, if any, has been completed that states this is the best method of containment? How will this water runoff, containing human fecal matter, bleach, the Hepatitis A virus and other poisonous material, effect San Diego environment and water quality? Will it kill all the plants and trees in the treatment area? Will beach goers suffer from contamination?

What will the bleach fumes do to air breath-ability?  Bleach does emit fumes that can be dangerous when inhaled.

The fear that this solution might be worse than the original problem looms heavy.



Sunday, October 8, 2017

2017 Indy Road Trip

2017 Indy Road Trip

09/22 - 10/08
Our Instagram Travel Log:

  • 2017 SCCA Run-Offs;
  • Mount Rushmore;
  • Crazy Horse;
  • Devil’s Tower;
  • Grand Canyon;
  • Four Corners

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