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Man urinates in resevoir. Now resevoir needs draining.

are the fucking stupid? its a open body of water. how many animals have shit and peed in it? how many dead animals have they found?

so they are going to waste $30k to drain it over a little piss? something that is not going to effect the water at all?
 
waggy said:
are the fucking stupid? its a open body of water. how many animals have shit and peed in it? how many dead animals have they found?

so they are going to waste $30k to drain it over a little piss? something that is not going to effect the water at all?
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Exactly what I was thinking. Who knows how many animals have shit and pissed in it to start with alone lol
 
waggy said:
are the fucking stupid? its a open body of water. how many animals have shit and peed in it? how many dead animals have they found?

so they are going to waste $30k to drain it over a little piss? something that is not going to effect the water at all?
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Not to mention the insects and parasites living and breeding in the open standing water.
 
Ridiculous. Most reservoirs are open lakes that anyone can wade out into to fish. There is nothing to stop the ducks from shit-pissing just the same as the people, reptiles, etc.
 
LOL, the sheriff said it could have been avoided if he had used a bush instead. So when you pee on a bush, that pee doesn't go anywhere? It just sits on the bush forever and never travels to the nearest low area?
 
"Yuck factor" from some human piss? That should be the least of concerns for people relying on surface water as a potable source. People have already mentioned the animal factor.

I guess those same people would be horrified to know that our freshwater supply is not as renewable as once thought and that many communities are looking at reclaimed water (highly treated waste water) to supplement the supply. Indirect potable (aquifer recharge) is happening now. Some states (California, Florida) are looking at direct potable use.

Having designed water and waste water facility systems and components, I have no issue drinking reclaimed water as long as it meets Primary AND Secondary drinking water standards.
 
Pretty Stupid. I was surprised when the gov't official said in the video that the water was chlorinated before it got to the reservoir. As far as I know water is not usually stored in open reservoirs after it has already been been treated.
 
Water bureau administrator David Shaff told KATU it's not about the science.

"There are people who will say it’s an overreaction,” he said. “I don’t think so. I think just dealing with the ‘yuck factor,’ I can imagine how many people would be saying, ‘I made orange juice with that water this morning. That’s not what I want to hear.’ ”
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Tells me he shouldn't be the Water Bureau administrator.

And City Commissioner Randy Leonard told CNN affiliate KGW-TV that the water in the Mount Tabor reservoir is chlorinated before it enters the reservoir.

"The water that's in the reservoir that you see is literally the water that you drink," Leonard said.
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Uh, yeah, sure....I guess they just forgot the part where that water is put through a treatment process first.

If I lived in Portland, I'd be sending my complaints here:

Commissioner Randy Leonard
1221 SW 4th Ave, Rm. 210
Portland, Oregon 97204
(503) 823-4682
randy@portlandoregon.gov

Administrator
David Shaff
david.shaff@portlandoregon.gov
 
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So what happens when a flock of birds fly over and a few of them take a shit in the reservoir? Drain it again?
 
So they didn't drain it over e-coli, but will drain it over likely sterile urine? They should just test the guy for UTIs, and call it a day.
 
I dont guess they treat the water before its sent out to the distribution system?

If a modern water treatment plant can not remove/kill anything that was in the guys urine, there is no hope for humanity.
 
waggy said:
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.
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Yup. I'm sure this is what is happening here, they probably had some sort of previous contamination. If I were that dude, I'd be hiring someone to do some tests on the water asap.
 
http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=1240

So it's only about the science when you want it to be?

Haha, this dude is really an ass hat.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/portlandcityhall/2011/06/portland_city_hall_roundup_hol.html
"I'd love to be able to figure out a way to give these clowns a bill for $1 million," Shaff told officials, drastically overestimating lost revenues and expenses by about $965,000 because, he said later, of bad math.
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If you just want to know heir setup, they have a wikipedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Water_Bureau
 
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Texashiker said:
I dont guess they treat the water before its sent out to the distribution system?
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Unless Portlandians (Portlanders?) are used to green algae, chunks of foliage and bits of dead animals and insects coming out of their faucets, I'm pretty sure that water gets treated first.

I love how in the video interview, the report says "but he says urine...is different, and he'd rather be cautious". Yeah, different in the sense that unlike those other contaminants, urine is mostly sterile.
 
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As a Portland resident, I have to say, the idea of someone peeing in the Mt. Tabor reservoir really doesn't frighten me all that much. Hell, I bet this happens fairly frequently; this is just one instance where they happened to notice. As people have mentioned, it's an open air reservoir; all matter of shit gets in it. Last year we had an e-coli scare at the reservoir, and it damn sure wasn't caused by some idiot peeing in it. Oooh, our water is one parts per billion urine now; WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!

Morons.
 
Gooberlx2 said:
Unless Portlandians (Portlanders?) are used to green algae, chunks of foliage and bits of dead animals and insects coming out of their faucets, I'm pretty sure that water gets treated first.
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So its ok for bugs to die in the water, maybe even have mosquito larvae, and bacteria to grow there, but for some reason a little urine freaks people out?

What is wrong with people these days?
 
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