Had a fabulous #FieldTrip today with Long Now Boston folks. We toured the #DeerIsland wastewater treatment plant. Yes, Long Now Boston is a nerd club.
But it gives me hope: some really smart, thoughtful, and capable people are keeping our infrastructure going and planning for #ClimateChange--no matter what the other noise around is.
Great tour, take one if you get the chance. #BostonMA
Of course, the highlight of the tour was seeing the actual egg digesters up close. You can't take photos inside, but we were right underneath one of them.
These use bacteria from human waste to chew up stuff that remains in the water at this point. On average, a piece of stuff that comes in spends 20 days in this breaking down.
If you fly into #BostonMA you see this dozen eggs and always wonder what they are about.... Now I know.
Bucket list item ✅
Also: they BEG everyone to stop using the "flushable" wipes, which are not flushable.
They are like the worst thing ever and damage their equipment more than anything else in the system.
@ai6yr We were joking about filming in there, and they said that something Cameron Diaz was in was filmed there....
But it would totally work for sci-fi.
@asseenfrombuckhill It was totally worth it.
Takes some planning, though, because you have to send IDs to them for Homeland Security checks and that is a bit of a pain. But as long as you know going in.
That said: the day we went, the woman we worked with put someone not from our group on the tour. We were fine with that. You might be able to try that route.
@drawnonglass It was a special "members only" one. Because you have to submit security documents, there's a different deadline than usual, etc. We just used Eventbrite.
And people had to kind of know me and trust me to send their license and personal info forms to me. It required Homeland Security confirmation.
We didn't make it a wide open one due to the special steps and details.
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