Where does you urine end up?

[w1bbles]

If I take a pee it ends up in the Firth of Tay and trickles into the North Sea. If I go to my parents’ house it trickles into the Firth of Forth before also ending up in the North Sea. However I was looking at a map today and realised that if I was at their house and took a pee within walking distance of their garden it would end up in the Firth of Clyde and then out into the Atlantic.

In our old house we were c. 20 miles from the west coast but our septic tank outflow ended up in the Firth of Forth on the east coast.

What’s your not-so-interesting wastewater story? Atlantic? North Sea? English Channel? Mediterranean?

Make a splash here.

[normalbloke]

Chinese beer.

[Mr Magooagain]

My garden.

[Nethybridge]

Being a long time sink-pisser, I guess it ends
up in the drinking water of the goodly, stout burghers of Perth.

[bigpriest]

It goes to a sewage / waste water treatment plant where some of the advanced filtration processes include "polishing processes" - can't believe I've not read that before and used it as a witty retort.

[Driver101]

All over the pan and on the floor normally.

[Tabs]

Everyone seems to take the piss out of me.

[w1bbles]

bigpriest said:

It goes to a sewage / waste water treatment plant where some of the advanced filtration processes include "polishing processes" - can't believe I've not read that before and used it as a witty retort.

So polishing a turd is actually a thing…

[jingars]

My Adblue tank.

It disgusts the neighbours who overlook my drive, but these are financially constrained times.

[Mazinbrum]

Carling.

[Silvanus]

Mine normally ends up untreated in the local brook as Thames water think it's acceptable to constantly spill sewage. In theory it should be treated and eventually end up as drinking water or the Thames.

[anonymous-user]

The Thames, I’d imagine. Or recycled back into my tap water.

In a similar vein, there is a line in the Canadian Rockies. Rain that falls on one side of the line ends up in the Pacific. Rain that falls on the other side of the line ends up in the Atlantic.

Fickle.

[bobtail4x4]

I rarely go indoors,
I prefer to kill a patch of weeds outside,

[Alickadoo]

In your cold water tap in a few days time.

[Super Sonic]

Waiting for a scottyp123 or 911motorsport to come in on this thread ...

[cherryowen]

w1bbles said:

What’s your not-so-interesting wastewater story

Back in 2011, I was asked to draft subcontracts for upgrades to Crossness sewage treatment works located on the South bank of the Thames. Crossness is (IIRC) the 2nd largest wastewater treatment works in Europe, and the upgrades allowed the plant to treat 13 cubic metres of raw "brown" water per second. Part of the contract was to add some aeration "tanks" to the plant, each one being 70m long and able to cope with over half a million cubic metres of untreated water per day.

I'm shortly going to be agreeing a Final Account for some works on a wastewater plant out in the sticks near Kidderminster. One of the structures is a primary settlement tank; a circular reinforced concrete structure some 21m in diameter with walls 5m high. That will be PST no.7 on the plant.

Going back to Crossness, I placed an order for part of a new "odour control" building and the primary component of the odour control process was the use of mussel shells (I kid you not).

This, of course, may or may not be interesting,

[The Gauge]

In my TENNA MEN's.

[GT03ROB]

The Caspian most of the time, or my chicken & duck paddock when at home!

[nismocat]

Ours goes into the rain water/sewer pipes and then into the river.
Some people have sceptic tanks but most are just for storage. They then get the poo truck to come and empty it. They then smugly tell us, who don't have one, they get rid of their waste the proper way.

We point out that there is no waste treatment plant here and the poo truck owners just dump it in the river or rice paddy fields.

I don't touch "fresh" water fish here only sea caught.

[The Ferret]

nismocat said:

Some people have sceptic tanks but most are just for storage.

I'm really not so sure about that