“Turns out Boise sewage plants accept the contents from those septic tank pump trucks and Avimor figured they could take advantage of the poop program.”

Aren’t septic tank pump trucks a completely different amimal from the proposed “sludge” from Avimor and The Cliffs (which will be more or less dry, having been treated somehow)?

And just what is it that comes from Eagle? Sludge or septic tank pump truck loads? And why won’t the Boise plant accept sludge? Is it too dry for them to process, and has to be sent to the landfill or spread on the ground?

EDITOR NOTE– Rod, you have a lot of questions.
I thought I got most of them in the follow up. Here is a short version answer.

–Avimor will have same thing as septic tanks at the beginning “pump and dump.”

–When their membrane is up and running the water passing through the filter will be pretty clean (irrigation quality).

–If it passes various quality standards for lack of moisture and contaminants it can actually go to the landfill or to land application with permit.

–Boise has contract to take sewage via pipeline from Eagle and treat it. We are told Boise will take no more volume from Eagle than current level.

–Boise is changing policy to keep Avimor out of Boise sewage treatment facilities period, even for a short period of “pump and dump.”

–Had Boise known 3 years ago Avimore planned to use the septic tank truck route, they would have had “standing” when Team Dave tried to stop them.

Avimoor wants to be in Eagle. Fine! Note to new Eagle mayor- quit “considering” and start building.(The sewer plant, that is)

We may be forced to deal with your cars, but we don’t have to handle your excrement! (you have crapped on us enough already!)

It is just amazing how the basics of living, modern or otherwise, could exclude the process of disposing of human waste. In referring to my earlier life in Alaska, I can recall that every household had a “honey bucket” which was a big bucket that sat underneath the usual toilet seat. A couple of times a week the honey bucket guys would show up, knock on the door, then come on in and collect the honey bucket. They would bring it back empty, but it was the inhabitants’ responsibility to pour Pine-Sol in the bucket to cover up the odor remaining. To this day I can’t stand the smell of Pine-Sol – funny isn’t it?

In the middle of town was a lake, commonly referred to as “Honey Bucket Lake.” Fortunately it was frozen most of the year. The soil in the area was permanently frozen downward from about 12 inches or so, a condition called “permafrost.” I don’t know where the residue eventually ended. Guess it is probably still there, along with a plethora of dead cars and non-working appliances. Or they could have shipped it to Boise for treatment at the West Boise Sewer Treatment Facility. It wouldn’t surprise me.

This is a true story and I survived it.