Karl Emmons
20:22 - 21:02
"My understanding is that somehow they got approved for those life water above-ground septic tanks. I don't think anybody knows how those function. You know, they're, they're a septic tank, but they've got agitators and grinders and pumps inside of them that all have to work, and they digest the, uh, oopie in there, and then it goes out through an outflow, and they, they kill all the bacteria that might not have gotten digested with, uh, ultraviolet light. But then they just dump them out in the yard."
“My understanding is that somehow they got approved for those life water above-ground septic tanks. I don't think anybody knows how those function. You know, they're, they're a septic tank, but they've got agitators and grinders and pumps inside of them that all have to work, and they digest the, uh, oopie in there, and then it goes out through an outflow, and they, they kill all the bacteria that might not have gotten digested with, uh, ultraviolet light. But then they just dump them out in the yard.”
- Speaker
- Karl Emmons
- Timestamp
- 20:22 – 21:02
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Nome
- Captured at
- September 22, 2026
From the transcript
You know, I would have a comment on the, you know, the Spring Creek Housing Authority's North Iceview housing project they've got out there. My understanding is that somehow they got approved for those life water above-ground septic tanks. I don't think anybody knows how those function. You know, they're, they're a septic tank, but they've got agitators and grinders and pumps inside of them that all have to work, and they digest the, uh, oopie in there, and then it goes out through an outflow, and they, they kill all the bacteria that might not have gotten digested with, uh, ultraviolet light. But then they just dump them out in the yard.
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