Goat Systems routed that flush water, which contained Cupriavidus gilardii, into Cheyenne’s sanitary sewer
Wait, wut. So they didn’t dump it into the watershed. They sent it to the water treatment center.
Isn’t the sanitary sewer’s job to clean black water? Like they already get water with poop in it (and all the bacterium that comes with literal feces). Why is this a problem?
after tracing a rare bacterium in the city’s reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus. In a notice reported by Cowboy State Daily, the Board said Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging water carrying Cupriavidus gilardii, a metal-resistant bacterium that interfered with two water reclamation plants and pushed the reuse system offline for months of cleanup.
I am guessing the fact that the reclamation and reuse systems required months of offline-cleanup after a rare “metal-resistant” bacteria was detected suggests that their processing abilities are tailored towards common harmful bacteria, with detection to alert issues from uncommon bacteria.
Say a pest exterminator is used to using an air rifle to deal with a rat problem (it’s a shit example, but work with me here). Turning up to a rat infestation that also has bears with only an air rifle probably means running away and coming back with a new technique.
Wait, wut. So they didn’t dump it into the watershed. They sent it to the water treatment center.
Isn’t the sanitary sewer’s job to clean black water? Like they already get water with poop in it (and all the bacterium that comes with literal feces). Why is this a problem?
I am guessing the fact that the reclamation and reuse systems required months of offline-cleanup after a rare “metal-resistant” bacteria was detected suggests that their processing abilities are tailored towards common harmful bacteria, with detection to alert issues from uncommon bacteria.
Say a pest exterminator is used to using an air rifle to deal with a rat problem (it’s a shit example, but work with me here). Turning up to a rat infestation that also has bears with only an air rifle probably means running away and coming back with a new technique.