Man urinates in resevoir. Now resevoir needs draining.

[Nik]

Yeah, I can read Wikipedia too. The existence of some cyanobacteria which are harmful is not enough such that anyone can read your post and immediately think "Oh, he's ridiculing urination in a reservoir by comparing far worse things which exist and are filtered out". So far I've done little more than quote your exact words, and all you do is pull ridiculous explanations for what you really meant.

You're doing it again.

 

[TheNinja]

Urine idiot

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You're doing it again.

no u

 

[Nik]

Thanks for proving my points beautifully. I look forward to your trolling again in the future.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You've made no point except to support the dumping of open water supplies when urinated in. I've quoted multiple posts of you stating such. Your emotional state has blinded you from them, undoubtedly a creation of your childhood bullying/assrape that you feel a need to whinge about when not arguing bullheadedly. You are among the least rational members of this entire forum.

 

[Nik]

You are incorrect in the opinions which I support and why I support them.

You haven't quoted anything I've said that properly supports the wild and baseless claims you're trying to project onto my statements.

However, continue trolling if it makes you feel better about being wrong. I like how you make blanket statements and generalizations about things you are qualified in no way to make such assessments about, as well. Good entertainment! Weak arguments, but good entertainment.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's not as if the reason of "Hey, the money could be wasted in even more egregious ways!" is a particularly valid one either.

I'd be really upset if I had to drink piss water while the city flushes money down the toilet in other ways.

I think I should make that my signature. Maybe you would accept the quote's existence after a long enough time.

EDIT: And are you involved in the city's water sanitation program, or any such field for that matter? If not, your qualification of being from Portland is irrelevant.

 

[Fayd]

hmm i wonder if they needed to drain it anyway and just useing him as a excuse to pay for it?

seems pretty silly to drain it over 12 oz of piss.

especially considering piss is sterile, just high in salt and nitrates.

 

[Nik]

It's not as if the reason of "Hey, the money could be wasted in even more egregious ways!" is a particularly valid one either.

...and? Do you have a point to make?

I think I should make that my signature. Maybe you would accept the quote's existence after a long enough time.

Here's another example where you prove my point beautifully. Where have I denied that I've posted that?

Now, are you done injecting your own bullshit into the things I've said? I have all night, buddy.

EDIT: And are you involved in the city's water sanitation program, or any such field for that matter? If not, your qualification of being from Portland is irrelevant.

Yep! I've been involved in all kinds of weird stuff. Like radiation monitoring stations throughout the state, too, and one of my best friends is working on her PhD working as an environmental technician first for the feds and now for Lockheed.

Any other assumptions to throw out or are you done trolling?

 

[Nik]

especially considering piss is sterile, just high in salt and nitrates.

You don't seem to understand that not dumping could have avoided all kinds of political garbage that might have cost the city more tax dollars by an order of magnitude. You don't have any clue what kind of tree hugging assholes live here, do you

It's cheaper and faster to just dump and refill it.

 

[her209]

especially considering piss is sterile, just high in salt and nitrates.

Nitrates? I think you mean ammonia?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Nitrates? I think you mean ammonia?

Nah, he's just thinking two steps down the cycle.

 

[gaidensensei]

especially considering piss is sterile, just high in salt and nitrates.

It is a myth, it's not. You can get some diseases from direct contact with someone's urine who has certain infections. See CMV.

 

[Nik]

Keep in mind that the region has such an abundance of water that most of our reserves get washed right down the river this time of year anyway. Dumping the reservoir and refilling it wasn't anything more than emptying it, then letting some of the intended-for-drinking water that would otherwise get washed out to sea back into the reservoir to fill it up again.

 

[Nik]

It is a myth, it's not. You can get some diseases from direct contact with someone's urine who has certain infections. See CMV.

You get out of here with your logic and reason!

 

[gaidensensei]

You get out of here with your logic and reason!

To an extent, urine can be seen as disease free depending on how you want to look at it. In a scientific community it will not, and never be considered 100.00% sterile, microorganisms (pathogenic or not) are picked along exitway of the urinary system.
A lot of STI tests detect the presence of them in urine, but to actually get infected by many requires a different mode of transmission than just touching or drinking the urine.

Now if a guy dipped their hand in someone's urine puddle of sexual diseases and started masturbating without washing his hands, fat chance he'll come out clean after that.

 

[Redfraggle]

I haven't heard of anything so contagious that one man's one time pee stash wouldn't be safely diluted in so much water. Especially considering the water would have to (for safety reasons) get treated before it comes out my tap.

Now, if he peed into something the size of a kiddie pool, and we all had to drink from it, this might be a more realistic concern. As it is, it's moronic, wasteful, and blown way out of proportion.

 

[CZroe]

Keep in mind that the region has such an abundance of water that most of our reserves get washed right down the river this time of year anyway. Dumping the reservoir and refilling it wasn't anything more than emptying it, then letting some of the intended-for-drinking water that would otherwise get washed out to sea back into the reservoir to fill it up again.

Regardless, the MONETARY costs were specified in the article. You can read, right? Not only that, they said that it was treated first and must be treated again. Treatment and testing costs money, which is likely where most of that expense comes from.

 

[catilley1092]

So what happens now? Is the region going to spend mega bucks to monitor the lake for those who chooses to take a leak there? And then pass the expenses down to their customers?

While I can see possibly charging this dude for indecent exposure, or even public urination, this case is blowed up way too big. Most cities have been supplying recycled piss water to their customers for years.

Cat

 

[Nik]

Regardless, the MONETARY costs were specified in the article. You can read, right? Not only that, they said that it was treated first and must be treated again. Treatment and testing costs money, which is likely where most of that expense comes from.

Did I ever say the monetary costs weren't specified? I'm not sure why you're all up in my grill. Read the damn thread.

 

[BoomerD]

When I was a kid growing up in Spokane, the city had several open air reservoirs all over the city. There was one, not too far from where I lived, and other than a few miscreants who thought they'd make a nice swimming pool... () there were never any problems...BUT, in recent years, that one was converted from the old open air reservoir to this: