Milwaukee confident on catching condoms

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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/weird_news/11660057.htm

MILWAUKEE - After spending more than $1.8 million for a temporary system to catch stray condoms slipping through a sewage treatment plant, a Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District spokesman says officials are fairly confident a majority of condoms are now being caught before they can reach Lake Michigan.

A system of 24 large nets to catch condoms was installed early last year, but officials say they clog with algae and other debris, requiring them to be changed every two or three weeks. But district officials say the net system is meant to be only a short-term fix.

They say "bar screens" with three-quarter-inch spacing which act as a sieve at the front of the plant, where raw sewage enters, will be replaced with screens with quarter-inch spacing, but that $23 million effort is not expected to be completed until 2009.

"If we need to take more steps, we don't know what they would be," Graffin said.

:spray:

[undeterred]

1. hmmm... maybe masculine hygiene dispensers?

[xray s]

2. haha

the stuff that flows just under the surface of our world, in the sewers, is something to think about. politics included.