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- Council gets the straight poop
- SUNNYSIDE (Monday 9-28-98)---Bio-solids, ladies and gentlemen.
- A tide of bio-solids will float us into the 21st century, into an environmental paradise, a time of flowers and lush greenery of which we can only dream today.
For this, we can thank every Sunnysider who sits in the privy. That was the straight poop given the City Council this evening by representatives of the King County Bio-solid Management Program.
After the presentation by King County's Arly Huffman and Sunnyside's Ted Durfey, the council unanimously agreed to continue its contract with King County.
Locally, Natural Selection Farms, Inc., will haul away and deposit solids from the Sunnyside's wastewater treatment facility at a cost to the city of $22.40 a ton.
King County's BMP magically converts processed waste to a into a germ-and-chemical-free fertilizer for which plant life everywhere goes nutso.
In western Washington, bio-solids are used to create lush parks and very healthy timberland. A video shown at the Council meeting reveals, for example, cross sections of trees which got their old diet and those which received the new bio-solid rations. Trees and flowering plants fed on bio-solids are several times as large and healthy.
In semi-arid Eastern Washington, bio-solids are great for rangeland, farmland, wetlands, parks, and crops. Once the stuff is applied, it even prevents soils from blowing away in dust storms. Earthworms love it. Huffman said the wigglers are coming back to town as farmers use less chemical fertilizer.
In addition, use of bio-solids over chemical fertilizers reportedly lowers nitrate levels in the fresh water table at the five-foot depth.
In other business, the council:
- Okayed liquor licenses for the El Conquistador, 612 E. Edison Ave.; Safari Restaurant, 616 E. Edison Ave.; Safeway, Inc., 613 S. 6th St., and Valley Lanes, 1802 E. Edison Ave.
- Amended an agreement with Sunnyside School District's Latchkey Program; Washington State Migrant Council won't participate in the upcoming year.
- Okayed an amended agreement with the Washington State Patrol for the AFIS live-scan fingerprinting system at a cost of $70,000.
- Planned a Council retreat--to which the public is invited--to take place between 1 and 5 p.m. Oct. 3 in the Police Department's conference room at the Law and Justice Center, 401 Homer Ave.
- Slated for Oct. 5 formal appointments of citizens by the mayor to the Parks and Recreation Commission and Board of Adjustment.
- Heard a presentation by Bruce Gould, Bellevue, representative for the Underground Utilities Location Center. The UULC is a private non-profit group that represents 600 utility companies in 26 of Washington's 39 counties. Next year, UULC data will go onto the Internet, enabling those who want to know the precise location of underground utilities. UULC last year got 279,000 information requests.