Outfall

out·fall/ˈoutˌfôl/Learn to pronouncenounnoun: outfall; plural noun: outfalls

1. the place where a river, drain, or sewer empties into the sea, a river, or a lake.

fall·out/ˈfôlˌout/Learn to pronouncenounnoun: fallout; noun: fall-out

1. 1. radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion or accident and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation.
   • airborne substances resulting from an industrial process or accident.”acid fallout from power stations”
2. 2. the adverse side effects or results of a situation.”almost as dramatic as the financial scale of the mess is the growing political fallout”

Have you heard of an outfall? Chances are you probably haven’t. I didn’t until recently. I recently learned that all along the Florida seaboard and elsewhere, are series of these outfalls. Many outfalls were created in the Ocean in the 1970s as a solution to the growing populations extra sewage. You have to remember though, they didn’t have the chemicals then, that we have now. They didn’t have the birth control pills, the phosphorus rich fertilizers we douse our lawns with, the machine oils and by-products of our industrial processes that make their way into the system. Sure, they had them, but not like we do now.

What do you think happens to all the water it expels? Do you think the extra things just disappear?

The recent Sewer break in Miami near Oleta River was a result of a break near or around the outfall located near there. It has still not been fully repaired, as of this writing. The most disgusting thing to me is that they have had to use machines to suck the sewage out of the water and are shipping it to locations in northern Florida. (Remember, Florida does have higher elevations up north, everything flows down to us in the “Swamp”) My question is why do we have those so close to our large populations, and our large beach going touristy locations. No wonder Fort Lauderdale water has reports of dirty water for YEARS coming and going.

I added the definition of Fallout here for a reason. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you why, but in the interest of being clear, I will.

Fallout being the inverse word of outfall, it is something I believe to be resulting from these outfalls. People have lost dogs for innocently putting them in the water. People have DIED from Flesh eating bacterias in local waters. Some were lucky enough to have only gotten sick. Fort Lauderdale lost water COMPLETELY for 36 hours recently. Our systems are collapsing and we are barely aware of it. That’s why I am here. People NEED to know CLEARLY what is happening out there. We are not as safe as we think we are, but there is hope.

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