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- From: EMN002@email.mot.com (Mary Beth Northrup)
- Subject: Re: Emptying Water System in Unused House
- Organization: Motorola, Inc. Plantation, FL
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:24:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.212408.12711@schbbs.mot.com>
- References: <1993Jan4.150614.6635@kodak.kodak.com><1993Jan11.205609.7424@fid.morgan.com><1 <93019.105102JCLEWIN@MTUS5.BITNET>
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- In article <93019.105102JCLEWIN@MTUS5.BITNET>, <JCLEWIN@MTUS5.BITNET> writes:
- >
- > In article <1993Jan15.164940.7983@tc.fluke.COM>, kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt
- > Guntheroth) says:
- > >
- > >Most commercial building owners who leave buildings unoccupied during the
- > >winter pur anti-freeze into the toilet bowls instead of draining them. Then
- > >they just (illegally) flush the anti-freeze down the toilet when tennants
- > >arrive. ----------
- >
- > The last two times I changed antifreeze in my car I thought, now what do I
- > do with this stuff (the waste). The back of the antifreeze bottle says to
- > pour it into a SANITARY sewer (one going to a treatment plant, not down the
- > the storm sewer). While in concentrated form antifreeze is poisonous, diluted
- > it doesn't cause much harm.
- >
- > JCLEWIN@MTUS5.BITNET
- >
- >
- >
-
- Antifreeze (a glycol ether) is biodegradable and can be broken down by the
- local municipal water treatment plant (when reasonably well diluted).
- If you pour it down a storm sewer, it's going straight into the
- environment in a concentrated form which won't easily degrade. So,
- it's much better to get rid of it by pouring into the sanitary sewer than
- into a storm drain or septic tank.
-
- Mary Beth Northrup
- EMN002@email.mot.com
-