Tracking down the roots of our sanitary sewers: Miscellaneous



	Poems and songs
	On the Famous Voyage, by Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Untitled, by Sir John Harington (late 1500s) Untitled (Epigram to the Ladies of the Privy Chamber), by Sir John Harington (late 1500s) Cologne, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1828) Modern Sanitation (author unknown, 1885) A Brook in the City, by Robert Frost (1923) An Ode to Sludge, by F. M. Veatch (1925) The Passing of the Backhouse, by Charles T. Rankin (?) I Came Home on Saturday Night (author unknown) Song of the Sewer from The Honeymooners The history of a nursery rhyme — Ring around the Rosie Ode to Karl Shapiro, by Bobbi Mastrangelo
	Sewers in the news
	Effluent struggles in Pima County Arizona - July/August 2007 Sinkhole in Seattle, Washington - May 2007 Sinkhole in Guatemala City - February 2007 Sinkhole in Portland, Oregon - December 2006 Water Main Break in Phoenix, Arizona - October 3, 2006 Sinkhole in Brooklyn, NY - March 2006. See also a New York Times Article about sinkholes and aging infrastructure. Wired Magazine writes about modern toilet design - March 2005 Visit WaterWebster for recent sewer news Sinkhole in Sterling Heights, Michigan, August 22, 2004 Sinkhole in Portugal Sinks Bus, November 25, 2003 The Toto Neorest - the toilet enters the new millenium, October, 2003 The Microsoft iLoo story, May, 2003 Australian Pet Cockroaches, May 23, 2003 Methane leak causes explosions in Detroit, May 6, 2003 Stolen Taiwanese manhole covers appear in China, February 24, 2003 Outhouse where Sputnik first sighted is memorialized, November 4, 2002 Sewer Collapse in Tucson, Arizona, September 7, 2002 Water main break in Phoenix, Arizona, October 3, 2006 Sanitation chosen as the greatest medical advance since 1840 by the British Medical Journal, January 2007 Looming Sinkhole Crisis, March 2007 (If offline, check here)
	Humor
	Quote from Tom Lehrer: "Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." The Creation (author unknown) The Operator's 10 Commandments (author unknown) Microsoft Manhole Covers (author unknown) Jokes from the Honeymooners A Story About Rats The Wayside Chapel - an amusing story about water closets and cross-cultural misunderstanding courtesy of Russell Synder, Commissioner, Sanitary District of Hammond, Indiana. Pipe Specifications - "All pipe should be supplied without rust; this can be more readily applied at the job site..." Thanks to Raj Bhattarai, P.E., City of Austin Water Utility, Texas, for this educational Powerpoint show! (This version is based on a British website. The original author is unknown.) Video of an unusual encounter in a PortaPotty. (WMV file - 4.3 MB). Source: Unknown, widely circulating on You Tube and other video sites in 2007.
	Word and phrase origins
	History Lesson (author unknown)