sewerage of a seaside city goes where?

Question

You know, vacation season comes and I always wondered where all the faeces of towns go, when towns are near sea where I shall swim?

Answer 1

In most cases feces goes into a treatment facility. After it has been processed it is released back in the environment.

Your question and concerns are still valid. Sewage is only one component in a complex system that determines how clean and safe water is to swim in. Some areas have dangerous levels of microorganisms and other toxins.

For more information I recommend reading the Natural Resource Defense Council's article "Testing the Waters."

Answer 2

The answer is they all go into the sea.

For my answer is true, no matter how advance the country is like Japan, UK, US, & many other countries unsaid.

These sewerage are not safe to be converted into fertilisers as they may usually contain higher doses of heavy metals, terminating life.

Always, before they are channeled into the sea, they temporarily come to effluent tanks to be tested for dangerous substances. If exotic toxins or unusually high heavy metals or radioactive substances are found, the sewages are quarantined.

And always, sea is the ideal sewage disposal point as the sea is vast, salty, full of decomposing bacterias & is a cheap way of sewage disposal.

If I have not mistaken, last month Hong Kong beaches has been ruined by a chemical factory disposing of chemicals into the sea directly, producing foul smells at the beaches.

If you have a good government group, strict regulations and seawater quality testing is facilitated, go ahead to swim.

Answer 3

I am quite sure that these towns have sewage treatment plants the same as any other American city or town.
If you are in doubt about the water being clean enough to swim in, use the city pool.

Answer 4

Water treatment facility. After the process the water is tested and released back into the environment.

Answer 5

It goes to a processing plant and most times turn into fertilizer.