WELL NOW YOU KNOW

By Rayburn Casey Hall

Without a thought you flush your Commode

And down the bowl goes your load

As you sit with your hands in your lap

You rid yourself of the paper and crap.

You send it out of sight and mind

To be cleaned and refined for all mankind

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If you wonder where your water goes

That you contaminate and dispose

First it has to be collected in a sewer line

Where the sun don’t ever shine

And flow through a maze of pipes

Of which there are many size and types

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Do you wonder how waste water is cleaned?

First the debris has to be screened

To remove the rags, cans, and leaves

Of which all sewers receive

To prevent the clogging of the sewers lines

And the sounds of men’s growls and whines

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Next you remove the grit, sand and gravel

By slowing down the feet per minute traveled

Leaving the inorganic to descend

And allowing the organics to suspend

Then it’s filtered in a traveling screen

And leaves the sewage partially clean

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The next process in the tour

Is primary treatment to be sure

Once again we slow down the flow

Of which the results will show

The heavy solids will descend

And the scum will ascend.

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Next treatment resembles a human belly

After this point the sludge is not smelly

Where solids are pumped and warmed

And biological treatment is performed

And class A sludge is produced

And methane gas is made to use

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Dilution to pollution used to be the solution

But now secondary treatment is the resolution

Secondary treatment is like magic

If not used it would be tragic

The waste water is highly oxygenated

While it is being mixed and agitated

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Microorganisms are used as free drudge

To convert dissolved solids to sludge

While consuming and wasting they form a glue

And the waste and glue form a goo

That’s been named activated sludge

That looks a lot like melted fudge.

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The activated sludge is too thin to press

Has to go to a thickening process

Now the digested and activated sludge

Is a thickened and stabilized sludge

That can be pressed and centrifuged

Into a Class A product good for human use

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Wastewater technology has been applied

And under oath we certified

That our permit has been complied

If it wasn’t satisfied

It would not be denied

For fear of being crucified

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