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[poptart]

Water Supply Cut Off After Man Urinates In Reservoir

ORTLAND, Ore. (CBS Seattle) – A Portland, Oregon man urinated in a Mt. Tabor
reservoir Wednesday causing the city to take it’s critical water supply off line and dump
millions in gallons of water.

According to The Oregonian, officials saw five people throwing objects into the reservoir,
while one person began to urinate into it through the fencing. Police did not cite the
21-year-old or his friends, but the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office may press
criminal charges after surveillance video and police reports are reviewed.

“It’ll kind of depend on what the surveillance video shows,” Sgt. Pete Simpson explained to
the newspaper. ”He’s not out of the water yet.”

An administrator for the Water Bureau, David Shaff, said that because of this incident,
roughly 7.8 million gallons of drinking water will be discarded. He said the bureau
often finds dead animals in the same drinking supply but the water isn’t dumped.

“This is different,” Shaff told the newspaper. “Do you want to drink pee?”

Cont.: http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/10/16/ ... reservoir/


Yes!

- Moving Fail




Well...

Was it really necessary to dump 7.8 millions gallons of water?

We're aware that most things are very wonderful in the upper left, but how is the water, generally?

[smackaholic]

Had it not occurred to these morons that a fish or two may have peed and shat, repeatedly into this water? I would like to know how they disposed of this tainted water? Did they just haphazardly dump it downstream into some other poor fukks watershed so they can drink pee?

[Bucmonkey]

Idiocy.

[mvscal]

Well...

Was it really necessary to dump 7.8 millions gallons of water?

Simply another manifestation of imbecility and waste created by public education. We have become a nation overrun by hordes of dumbed down morons utterly incapable of rational thought or critical reasoning. They are prone to hysteria and easily manipulated by simplistic propaganda.

Of course, this is all by design. The Dept. of Education is the most insidious evil ever foisted on a gullible population.

[smackaholic]

Dude, why to you wanna make people drink pee?

They should have filled that reservoir with brawndo.

[Screw_Michigan]

We need to know the names of these young men. If they sound like say...oh, I dunno...Abdul, Nasir, etc., we might want to find out what they were throwing in the water supply.

I bet they were run of the mill morons like yourself named Sam, also like yourself.

[poptart]

In answer to the water rep, I'd rather drink one man's piss in 7.8 million gallons of water than have the same amount of water tainted with dead squirrels, raccoons, and Dinsdale's discarded rubbers.

lol

[Diego in Seattle]

What's wrong with drinking piss?

Sin,
Astronauts

[Dinsdale]

Happens every year or two, actually.

There's some real rocket surgeons around here. The beauty of it, is the feds (although it's none of their business, and the 10th Amendment was long ago declared null and void) ordered the Water Bureau to cover the 2 (?) open reservoirs quite a while back. They purchased some covers even, but then decided the Feds were out of their jurisdiction, and told them to fuck off. They've been told over and over to fix it, and not leave an open reservoir in a city park, but Portland doesn't want to be told what to do. All the transplant do-gooder-wannabe greenies actually have sit-ins and large protests when the city talks about covering the reservoirs (no, really, I didn't make that up). They even had a plan to build new tanks, and make the Mt Tabor (freaking volcano smack dab in the middle of the city, BTW) a pond, but the idiots wouldn't have it.

As far as "how's the water," it's the best in the country. Doesn't even get RO filtration after it flows down out of the mountains - a shot of chlorine and a shot of ammonia, and off it goes. Of course the Feds are also insisting on a UV system, which Portland is naturally fighting.

The whole open reservoir thing is hilarious to me -- no one has a problem with ducks and geese living in it, dead critters floating all over it, and whatever else falls in there - but take a leak (human urine is sterile-BTW), and it's off to jail. Bear in mind, it's finish water - from the reservoir, directly into the mains, to your faucet.

And in the big picture - in a water district the size of Portland's (serves many outlying areas as well, well over 1 million people on that system), 8 million gallons isn't really a big deal. What also wouldn't be a big deal in the big picture would be building a new tank farm, and taking the open reservoirs offline.

My water at home comes from Bull Run/Portland Water Bureau, but that shit gets heavily filtered before it gets drank. My burb is trying like hell to get away from Portland water. What's awesome is the same water coming through the same pipes costs almost triple in Portland as compared to the burbs which sell Portland water. Tells you what you need to know about city services.

[Wolfman]

human urine is sterile-BTW

Good for cleaning out wounds in bad situations. So I heard.

[Mikey]

PORTLAND, Ore. (CBS Seattle) – A Portland, Oregon man urinated in a Mt. Tabor
reservoir Wednesday causing the city to take it’s critical water supply off line and dump
millions in gallons of water.

Simply another manifestation of imbecility and waste created by public education. We have become a nation overrun by hordes of dumbed down morons utterly incapable of rational thought or critical reasoning.

Or correct use of an apostrophe, apparently.

[Dinsdale]

I'm guessing the PPM of urine in public pool water dwarfs anything Mt Tabor Reservoir has ever seen. Don't see too many rotting animal carcasses in public pools, though (and I've seen dead animals in reservoirs in other places, as well, even enclosed ones... since I've worked on a whole bunch of them).

That ~1 PPM of chrorine they try to keep municipal water at is pretty key. Sometimes there's a little ammonia in there, but that's generally to buffer the Ph to keep the pipes from corroding too quickly. Both come out of solution fairly quickly.

[Left Seater]

Prolly pretty easy to decide to dump multiple millions of gallons when you get a few feet of rain a year. Unlikely the same decision would be made in say Tucson.

[Derron]

There are actually several units up there.



7.8 million gallons is a drop in the bucket. That impoundment serves one of the most densely populated areas in Portland, and I don't know how long 7.8 million gallons last, but probably not very damn long.

With such close public access, anybody want to fuck shit up real bad could easily launch chemicals into those ponds. Since Portland is situated over the Pacific flyway for migratory waterfowl, you never see geese or ducks on these waters at all.

When the 9.0 hits on the subduction zone, this bitch is all headed down hill, probably a good 300 or better feet of elevation drop, in a real hurry, taking along all the faggot bicycle riders with it.

Anybody actually wants to drink any of these municipally supplied waters with the all the poison treatments they put into is fucking crazy.

[Dinsdale]

Prolly pretty easy to decide to dump multiple millions of gallons when you get a few feet of rain a year. Unlikely the same decision would be made in say Tucson.

As far as the 51 "major metropolitan areas" (those with 1,000,000+ people), Portland ranks somewhere around #37.

Here's a list of US cities that destroy Portland's annual average precip:


New Orleans, Louisiana
Miami, Florida
Birmingham, Alabama
Memphis, Tennessee
Jacksonville, Florida
Orlando, Florida
New York, New York
Houston, Texas
Atlanta, Georgia
Nashville, Tennessee
Providence, Rhode Island
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Tampa, Florida
Raleigh, North Carolina
Hartford, Connecticut



That's a partial list. But pretty much anywhere that isn't considered "desert" typically gets at least a little more per year than here.

BUT... the place the water comes from, the Bull Run Watershed (which you can't even set foot in) gets wayyyyy more than any of those places listed. Pretty much triple what the top cities get.

Lots of days of very light rain here, which amounts to not much on an annual basis. About 36", depending on which part of town (a little less than that where I live, way less where Derron lives).

[Mikey]

Anyone ever swim laps in a public pool?

Ever seen a grown man naked?

[Left Seater]

While FL and Houston etc will get two inches in one hour from a thunderstorm, it might take Portland five days to get to the two inch mark.

What is it you guys call it locally, the Portland mist?

[Dinsdale]

While FL and Houston etc will get two inches in one hour from a thunderstorm, it might take Portland five days to get to the two inch mark.

That would be a "heavy" 5 day stretch. Generally only happens from about mid-November through mid-February (although possible at other times, but extremely unlikely). A quarter of an inch in a day is bigtime around here. An inch is calling in the National Guard or something.

What is it you guys call it locally, the Portland mist?

Puh-leez. We're famous for having 12 different definitions for various stages of light rain. Goes from "light mist" to "heavy drizzle."

Very rarely rains hard here... extremely rare. 50 miles west, 30 miles east? Hell yeah it pours. Here in the Valley - not so much.

[Wolfman]

Funny you mention that 88. Brings back memories of those old Steve Reeve flicks. Loved them for the "outstanding" Italian hotties. Soft porn at its best.

[Jay in Phoenix]

Anyone ever swim laps in a public pool?

Ever seen a grown man naked?

You like movies with gladiators?

Have you ever been in a...in a Turkish prison?

[Bucmonkey]

What is the primary water source there Dins ? Surface or groundwater?

[Diego in Seattle]

Dins....Better start watching out for a $54,000 SUV that avoids grass clippings.

[smackaholic]

What is the primary water source there Dins ? Surface or groundwater?

Urinals.

[Dinsdale]

The news folk were trying to tell us this last happened in 2011. My hazy memory thought it was much more recent.