Open for Business: Gov't to Erect $98,670 Outhouse ( Alaska )

CNS News ^ | October 1, 2013 | Eric Scheiner

[george76]

The Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently paid $98,670 for the purchase and installation of an outhouse at the Swede Park Trail Head in Alaska.

The purchase includes a single-vault Romtec 1011 "Aspen Single" prefabricated waterless toilet and its installation at the parking area for the trail head.

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The Oregon based company Romtec lists the "Aspen Single" model on its website for “as low as $9,999”, but the BLM says the price they paid likely includes shipping to Alaska.

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The $98,670 contract does not include the pumping out and maintenance of the facility. Those issues are addressed in a separate contract.

[apoxonu]

I am in the wrong business! I should be installing outhouses for $50,000.00 - $70,000 each!

[DManA]

$10,000 for the outhouse. $80,000 for the toilet seat.

[driftdiver]

Thats some expensive sh#! there man.

[Gaffer]

I once stopped in a roadside outhouse in Death Vally at some celebrated place in the very flat bottom....Pearl something? Blue something...I forget....

Anyway, a real salt, borax and other mineral flat that had pretty colors...they dug a hole 20-30 ft. deep and put a shack over it....you could only stay in there long enough to take whiz. Any longer and the chemicals and bodily issue would literally knock you out.

[piroque]

[Bon of Babble]

It will look just like Obama's Presidential Library:

[Tennessee Nana]

An Obama Office...

well they dont come cheap...

only the best will do..

[skinkinthegrass]

*snickering/LOL!*I love that FR_tagline.

[USNBandit]

In other news BLM has announced that trail use fees are going to increase this year due to rises in costs to maintain trails.

[RetSignman]

Go after them Sarah and tell em’ you don’t want to see that ‘waste’ from your back porch.

[jazusamo]

LOL! The old boy who built that to put out in front of his business in Tucumcari would have sold one like it to them a heck of a lot cheaper and thrown in the sign for free.

[knarf]

a hunnert grand ...

[Islander2]

Government waste to catch body waste.
What else would you expect from our Nation’s CRAPITOL?

[pierrem15]

Now that’s a crapper for the ages— does it include bronze doors? For that kind of money, I expect a marble frieze showing us Emperor Obama smiting the Tea Party barbarians, etc.

[bgill]

That's nothing. In August, Switzerland had the grand unveiling of it's nine $2.2 million government built drive-in prostitution stalls. Each one of these cost taxpayers $250,000.

[knarf]

Every time you wipe, you get a free photo of him.

[familyop]

I’m assuming that it’s a composting toilet similar to many in parks on the Rockies. Just another racket for making a particularly influential constituent really fat.

[george76]

$100,000 for a single hole outhouse.

Wonder about another green / solar kickback ?