Homework Blog #1

In recent news, The Water Authority is trying to flush out a stinky situation in the North Valley.
The Water Authority described the smell. "It is a very unpleasant rotten egg smell," said David Morris, with the Water Authority. People who lived the odor explained it differently. "It should be condemned it smells so bad," one resident said. "It will start filling up this room just like I was in an outside toilet."On Tuesday, neighbors, including hospice patient Priscilla Chavez, said the summer has been a smelly one on Chavez Road."The sewage tends to flow a lot slower than it would elsewhere," Chavez said.

On Wednesday, the Water Authority said the flat sewer line causes the sewage to not move through the area as quickly, but right now workers are trying to change that.
"We are actually increasing the flow to this area to make it speed up to see if that would help the problem," Morris said. By turning some valves the Water Authority can do that. They also plan to pour in some hydrogen peroxide and that's not all. "The Water Authority is going to open up this manhole and put monitors inside to measure the gas levels to see if they are irregular. Also, they are going to rely on the residents in this area to tell them if the smell is going away," Morris said. "We would hope that they would see fairly immediate results from the things we are taking, say within a day or so." If not, the Water Authority said it has some other ideas and they won't stop till they fix this.

In a short paragraph describe the importance of this situation and whether you think the city should take care of immediately or is you think there are other things we should worry about.
-Mr. N