Tom Andersen's blog about Long Island Sound
posted by Tom Andersen at 6:52 AM
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This Fine Piece of Water - An Environmental History of Long Island Sound
This is a blog about environmental issues in the New York area in general and Long Island Sound in particular. I'm the author of "This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound," which came out in 2002. I wrote about the environment and other issues during almost two decades as a newspaper reporter.
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2 Comments:
Hey that's my old home town! Good old Clinton, stuck in between the "richies" in Madison and Westbrook and Old Saybrook.
I can tell you that our 1880's house we lived in, originally an annex to a hotel, didn't even have what you'd call a proper septic system. I think the plumber called it more like a "beehive cistern" and used some very apt cuss words. Really old fashioned square, clay tiles were used as the line between the house and the cistern.
The clay tiles eventually collapsed and yeast would no longer work, so dad did hire somebody to install PVC pipe from the house to ... the thing with very bad names.
I seem to recall that somebody, maybe from the town or state, came out one day and did a "perc test" to measure how good the water would settle. Well, it didn't. The fellow was amazed that our century-old system even worked. "Yeast," said dad.
Best raspberry patch you ever saw though, we got buckets a day when they were setting fruit, and never a hint of indigestion. I'm sure those old beehive systems are illegal as heck now. -sam
We rented a house in New Canaan as recently as 2000 and it still used a cesspool (and still does today). They're bad but they're still around.
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