Man urinates in resevoir. Now resevoir needs draining.

[JPS35]

Only in Portland...

 

[sandorski]

Probably the same guy that blew up that whale carcass.

 

[bfdd]

fucking idiots

 

[waggy]

All the more reason to dump it and get fresh water.

and what are they going to do next month? and the month after?

 

[gevorg]

...Were we in a 100 year draught, I might make a different decision.

Might, eh?

 

[Redfraggle]

So they have too much tax revenue and need something to do?? I'm confused because I don't see the point. In a survival situation, you could literally drink your own urine if you had to. It's sterile. Hell, with all the vitamins Americans take and piss out, you could bottle and sell it as VitaminWater.

Unless he's the carrier for the zombie plague, this seems completely wasteful.

 

[StrangerGuy]

It just boggles the mind on the amount of idiots in the world making stupid decisions ruining every single thing in life.

 

[Oric]

Officer : sir, you have to leave, no peeing in the pool
Man : but, everybody does that !
Officer : yes, but not standing by !

 

[paperfist]

Doesn't that water get filtered at the water treatment plant anyway?

lol drain a reservoir that holds 8 million gallons cause someone pissed in 16 ounces. And WTF $7500.00 in disposal costs? It's water FFS. Run a hose to CA and they'll pay 100x that amount for it.

 

[mcmilljb]

Doesn't that water get filtered at the water treatment plant anyway?

lol drain a reservoir that holds 8 million gallons cause someone pissed in 16 ounces. And WTF $7500.00 in disposal costs? It's water FFS. Run a hose to CA and they'll pay 100x that amount for it.

Bottle it and call it Outhouse Water. "We're number 1, not number 2."

 

[gaidensensei]

IIRC, in a healthy person, urine is sterile, and poses no threat whatsoever to the reservoir or the public.

Partially true. Urine is only sterile once it leaves the bladder. When it enters all the other jurisdictions such as the urethra, skin of the genitals, it is a free for all game for whatever gets picked up on the route. That means STI's (old medical term STD) are possible because some reside along the genitals, and it's been a fact that urine can act as a mode of transmission, a fomite if you may.

Some examples of STI's that are detected solely by conducting urine tests: CMV, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphilis are a few to name.

Despite the facts, from what I've been told most water treatment facilities treat the water adequately enough with temperature and chemicals that make it unable for infectious agents to survive in (this is why Cl- in water is a must), they often have rigorous quality checks to make sure it is within CFU/ml standards with government restrictions. It is more of a mentality thing that people don't like the idea of diseases floating around.

Not all animal diseases can be immediately passed to humans (medical term zoonosis), they are usually isolated to certain species and have been unable to adapt to humans. Only when there are pan/epidemics that involve animals, those become breaking news that you want to watch for.

It shouldn't affect Grylls, because he's pretty much drinking his own microorganisms again anyway.

 

[OutHouse]

The guy made it sound like the water was sterile because it was treated. Chlorine gases off to nothing over time ask anybody who maintains a pool. That water was no more fit to drink than any other pond in the area. If portland sends that water to tap without being treated again somebody needs to be fired

 

[William Gaatjes]

All of you do not get it. The pisser had been eating German salads...

 

[gevorg]

Japan wants to help the City of Portland:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=21932

 

[Nik]

and what are they going to do next month? and the month after?

Probably employ further measures to stop people from pissing in the fucking reservoir?

 

[Regs]

The sheriff is just mad that someone else pissed in his pissy lake.

 

[destrekor]

Probably employ further measures to stop people from pissing in the fucking reservoir?

So you're cool with geese and bird shit, and who knows what else that might drop from the sky or from small creatures that can easily climb through the security measures?

Chlorinating water and then storing it in the open, and pumping it from there into the public water supply... is definitely the wrong approach to water treatment.

 

[Nik]

So you're cool with geese and bird shit, and who knows what else that might drop from the sky or from small creatures that can easily climb through the security measures?

Yep! If you're going to be stupid about this conversation, I'll just say "yep!" and leave it at that.

Chlorinating water and then storing it in the open, and pumping it from there into the public water supply... is definitely the wrong approach to water treatment.

Well aren't you just the water treatment professional who knows everything about the Mt. Tabor reservoir, knows everything about the state's laws and practices on the subject, knows everything about everything, eh? You're welcome to come change it all around here, since you know everything and we obviously know nothing. Please, feel free. We'll even put up a big red ribbon for you to cut when you get here.

 

[destrekor]

Yep! If you're going to be stupid about this conversation, I'll just say "yep!" and leave it at that.



Well aren't you just the water treatment professional who knows everything about the Mt. Tabor reservoir, knows everything about the state's laws and practices on the subject, knows everything about everything, eh? You're welcome to come change it all around here, since you know everything and we obviously know nothing. Please, feel free. We'll even put up a big red ribbon for you to cut when you get here.

Regardless of the specifics, piss is nothing. This is a gross overreaction.

If they do something that treats the water after birds shit into it, that same treatment will do just fine cleaning up human urine, which is almost assuredly sterile and even if not, still safe to drink 99% of the time. Can't say the same for feces.

If they treat it against what - according to the laws of probability - is almost assuredly occurring on a regular basis (read: birds and animals pissing and shitting into the reservoir), then I can guarantee that such treatment is even more effective against human urine.

You were saying?

 

[Nik]

Oh look, a reasonable post.

For this dude who pissed in the reservoir, they should have drained it, arrested him, and thrown the book at him charging him with the cost of the whole mess to teach him a lesson and set an example for other assholes who might think it's funny to piss in the reservoir again.

Pick your battles. For someone who doesn't even fucking live here, you seem to think you know a lot about our city's priorities and budget and all that. Portland and the rest of this state already throws away a TON of tax payer dollars (tens of millions, not this petty sub-$10k nonsense) on stupid crap that I would NEVER support, and these are programs that are literally never going to be stopped. This measly decision isn't even worth bitching about.

I'm glad they did something that, relatively, costs nothing and puts the ignorant public's mind to rest about people pissing in their water. I'm glad the city is, effectively, spending a little cash to set an example for other dumbasses who do shit like this.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

...according to the laws of probability...

Psst, Nik doesn't believe in statistics.

 

[waggy]

Probably employ further measures to stop people from pissing in the fucking reservoir?

what about the animals that piss in it? that shit in it? that die in it?

what those don't bother you?

 

[waggy]

Regardless of the specifics, piss is nothing. This is a gross overreaction.

If they do something that treats the water after birds shit into it, that same treatment will do just fine cleaning up human urine, which is almost assuredly sterile and even if not, still safe to drink 99% of the time. Can't say the same for feces.

If they treat it against what - according to the laws of probability - is almost assuredly occurring on a regular basis (read: birds and animals pissing and shitting into the reservoir), then I can guarantee that such treatment is even more effective against human urine.

You were saying?

thanks1 saves me the time of typing that out.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

what about the animals that piss in it? That shit in it? That die in it?

What those don't bother you?

you're from northern illinois what do you know about portland

EDIT: The above should have been in allcaps.

 

[Murloc]

open air potable air reservoirs? what the hell?

From the article
‘I made orange juice with that water this morning. That’s not what I want to hear.’ ”

you make orange juice with oranges, not with water. What the hell?

yuck factor when birds are shitting in it?

this story is really weird