Stinky Valley, Que?

Many have speculated as to how Stinky Valley got its name, Stinky. Well. It’s a story that begins with the long history of water engineering. Long ago, the water engineers made their greatest and most enduring discovery. Water, runs down hill. Eureka!

Once the water engineers figured out that water runs down hill, much followed. Like for example, the water engineers eventually realized they could bury pipes in all the streams and creeks, connect all the do do emitters to those particular pipes, connect all those pipes to bigger pipes and then pipe all the do do somewhere else. Eureka!

So that’s what they did. And that’s how all the human shit, piss and corruption winds up somewhere else. Incidentally though, digging up the creeks and streams to bury the sewage pipes provided dispersal corridors for plenty of non-native plant species that were usually employed as re-vegetation agents on the do do transport projects. That’s one of the reasons the creeks and stream banks sport humongous assortments of non-native weeds in these parts.

But all that aside, while water undoubtedly, when left on its own, runs down hill, do do, sometimes known as shit, or paydirt, does not. So if there is insufficient piss or mung water to float the do do along, the do do, settles out.

That’s what happens in Stinky Valley. The do do floats into the pipes in the creeks. But then, what with the never ending drought or shortage of mercurial water eventually turning to runoff, instead of floating out of sight and mind, the do do just squats there, in the pipes, buried in the creeks. So what does the do do, do then? Did you guess, stink? Yes. The do do stinks. Thus, Stinky Valley.

Well. Actually, Stinky Valley also features a fleet of about 250 diesel school buses. When cranked up, they stink too. Stinky Valley!