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No snow, no problem: Arizona debuts first sewage ski resort

...where was this waste-water going before it was diverted to the ski slopes? My guess is that it's the same place.

If they were using it for soccer fields and golf courses in the summer I imagine it was just discarded in the winter.

The wastewater is discharged into sewer canyon in Flagstaff, it is then stored and recovered by wells. The well water from sewer canyon showed negative outcomes in tests for pharmaceuticals and organic contaminates. Flagstaff has done nothing to resolve this issue. This water needs another level of treatment and then we need to use it wisely.

The wastewater treatment output in the area has been watering local golf courses there for years. That irrigation water then is leached back into the aquifers and current groundwater supply and pumped up for the usual processes to get drinking water. If there was an actual problem, we would have already seen it at the golf courses.

This is just a narrative designed to reduce traffic at this ski mountain in favor of a tribally-owned resort a few miles away. How come this isn't part of the story?

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How could they not see this as a PR nightmare?
Totally different than a golf course. Sewage snow!
Some things just aren't worth the effort.

I take a thyroid hormone and it is .175 milligrams, a tiny amount. It takes very little hormone to alter the balance of various systems in the body and doctors are very careful how much is dispensed. I'm concerned about all this sort of thing going out in runoff water, the long term effects on people and animals. Might it come back to pee on their parade?

You can bet it will be tertiary treated waste water (pretty much drinking water standards). I'd say you'd be better falling in that snow with your mouth open than kayakers in most rivers downstream of cities doing a roll over....

Just what color is the snow?

Well, the obvious joke is **** Skis, but I won't make it ;')