Ground pollution and sewage

[Districtopia 23]

Good morning everyone,

 

 

Just wondering how everyone deals with ground pollution. Specifically I am wondering how to clean up ground pollution when you bulldoze your sewage outflow pipes and instead plop a treatment plant. Isn't the treatment plant supposed to treat sewage without causing pollution?

 

I also notice that even though I have plenty of capacity with the sewage treatment plant, I constantly have complaints regarding backed up pipes. Game bug.. possibly?

[Numpty Dumpty 17]

When you are handling low amounts of your full capacity (green meter), you have less chance of blockages or what not.

 

As you get closer to the limit of your pipes capacity (yellow/red meter), it begins to let some leak into the ground around the area, at which point you get a lovely bog/marsh/blergh start to form around your outflow pipes.

[Districtopia 23]

When you are handling low amounts of your full capacity (green meter), you have less chance of blockages or what not.

 

As you get closer to the limit of your pipes capacity (yellow/red meter), it begins to let some leak into the ground around the area, at which point you get a lovely bog/marsh/blergh start to form around your outflow pipes.

 

I have plenty of room on my meter though, I'm well into the green area and they're still complaining that pipes are backed up and I need more treatment plants. And I can't seem to clean up any of the ground pollution that already exists.

[Numpty Dumpty 17]

Hmm, don't know then.

 

I have noticed that placing forests around my factories (which are spaced out) has prevented any of the usual ground pollution from gathering. Don't know if that could help in future.

[TuPhat 27]

I've seen this quite a few times also, I usually end up plopping down a second sewage plant somewhere else on the map (especially on maps that specializes in mining for oil).   Perhaps the road can only handle so much or I'm thinking that there are sewage spikes (the large blobs) that temporarily back up the pipes.   Not 100% sure.

 

For ground pollution, I believe the sewage treatment plant will clean up the immediate area, but it takes time.  Planting trees seems to help air polution, so I usually plant them in areas for ground polution too.   Not sure if that works or not, but it seems to.

 

Edit:  I'm obsessed with trees now when I play.  .  When mining or drilling oil, I plant trees everywhere, daily.   Seems to really help with germs and pollution but its a part-time job keeping up with new trees.

[Servan 5]

Road density also affects how much sewage can flow along it. Dirt roads seem to create more ground pollution with sewage. I had a single low density road leading to my treatment plant and it got backed up (65k pop), I got warning about clogged pipes, upgraded to med density and that solved the problem. Seems road density also affects power and water travel too. Higher density = bigger pipes.

[tnobles 38]

Good morning everyone,

 

 

Just wondering how everyone deals with ground pollution. Specifically I am wondering how to clean up ground pollution when you bulldoze your sewage outflow pipes and instead plop a treatment plant. Isn't the treatment plant supposed to treat sewage without causing pollution?

 

I also notice that even though I have plenty of capacity with the sewage treatment plant, I constantly have complaints regarding backed up pipes. Game bug.. possibly?

Planting forests will work for ground pollution. You may have to plant more than once to completely remove it, but it does work for ground pollution.

[Districtopia 23]

Thanks for the tips everyone. Will try some of these when I get home later. I've tried planting trees but it is indeed a part time job trying to keep up with it because they always disappear.

[mike119 0]

"I also notice that even though I have plenty of capacity with the sewage treatment plant, I constantly have complaints regarding backed up pipes. Game bug.. possibly?"

 

I'm assuming by the line previous to this that you already got rid of every single outflow pipe. If you haven't, then they will back up while the sewage treatment is working.

 

I think I did run into this problem once and that was when there was only one route to the sewage plant. Basically like all sewage is coming in at the same time and the in-flow pipe can't handle every bit of it at once. Water flow has a similar issue with reaching buildings the furthest down the line when you use too many windy roads and don't use many intersections.

[TuPhat 27]

Thanks for the tips everyone. Will try some of these when I get home later. I've tried planting trees but it is indeed a part time job trying to keep up with it because they always disappear.

 

For reference, I plowed under an ore mine and left behind was a nasty ground polluted area.   I plopped down a sewage treatment plant right in the middle and after time it seemed to clear up the pollution.   I believe trees would do the same.

 

Also, in a map where I built 4-5 oil wells with 9-10 rigs per well, I planted trees obsessively since I started pumping oil and there is very little air pollution and nearly no ground pollution directly under the oil rigs.  Pretty remarkable actually considering the mess it usually makes.   I've successfully shipped enough oil from those rigs to build an international airport so they've been running for awhile.   I really concentrate on planting those trees right between all the rigs and it seems to curb pollution.  But yeah, trees disappear fairly quickly so every morning I get click happy and plant a bunch of new ones.

 

Good luck!

[jpsurratt2005 4]

FYI, the trees are dying. Mostly from ground pollution. Air pollution doesn't seem to kill them, of course.

[TuPhat 27]

FYI, the trees are dying. Mostly from ground pollution. Air pollution doesn't seem to kill them, of course.

 

I don't know if that is true.   For instance, one of my cities (tourism/casino city) that has absolutely no industry and is generating nearly no pollution, is getting air pollution from a very heavy industry city that is upwind.   Because of the heavy industry city upwind, I see air pollution pockets in my tourism city that move around with the wind, but no ground pollution.   I plant trees in this tourism city so I can to kill the air pollution (which helps), but these trees seem to die on me quite regularly, requiring me to plant trees often.   Either the air pollution is killing them, or perhaps planted trees may have a shelf life.

[AlexMBrennan 11]

Trees seem to soak up a certain amount of pollution before they die.

And I wouldn't worry too much about the backed up pipes warning since I get that quite regularly without the sewage treatment plants ever going capacity - it's probably a bug. Of course, your best bet is to export sewage until you can build a treatment plant.