Ooh That Smell #1 - Stuckey's Coosawhatchie Traditional Cache

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Waterbaron: A caching family had a bad experience with someone who claimed ownership of this property that was once owned by someone I knew.

If I can find out through my local channels who now owns it, I'll approach them about hiding another cache on this odd and historic property.

While I don't live nearby, I own property in this county and respect the property rights of my neighbors.

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Hidden : 2/18/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The Wastewater Plant Formerly Used by Stuckey's. (With apologies to Lynwyrd Skynyrd, this series will bring cachers to wastewater treatment facilities.)

Most folks don't realize that most community wastewater treatment processes use very few chemicals to clean up dirty water. Treatment plant operators are really "bug farmers" who devote their working hours to making conditions optimal for the right bugs. The bugs eat the incoming waste, off-gas carbon dioxide and nitrogen and breed more bugs.

To do this, the operator provides a lot of oxygen, some mixing and occasional settling periods.

Eventually, an inert sludge settles to the bottom and clear water is taken from the top and returned to the environment after disinfection. (Some plants use chemicals to disinfect, others use ultraviolet light to kill any pathogens.)

The equipment you see on the other side of the fence was once a tiny wastewater treatment plant that served the nearby abandoned filling station and restaurant. Because the restaurant generated more wastewater than a conventional septic tank could treat, the owners built this plant to treat the wastewater before returning it to Bee's Creek.

The SC Department of Health and Environmental Control, which oversees environmental issues in the state, issued a permit for this facility that required a licensed operator to visit the facility every day and to test the water quality daily at a certified laboratory.

Eventually, these costs made the restaurant unprofitable so it was closed. (All of the other buildings in the area are on septic tanks and have limited food options. In other words, you eat out of a plastic container.)

The cache container is a glass container with small trade items and a log.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Znaubyr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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