Posted on 04/18/2014 8:07:26 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Portland administrators will flush 38 million gallons of water from Mt. Tabor Reservoir 5 after a 19-year-old man urinated in the city’s drinking supply.
“Even though there is very minimal public health risk, the bottom line is that our commitment is to serve water that’s clean, cold and constant,” said Water Bureau administrator David Shaff. “That doesn’t include pee. Not from people, at least.”
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What amazes me about this whole thing is learning the they are not required to filter the water as part of treatment. It appears to be a surface water supply, not groundwater.
I did not know there were any states remaining which did not require filtration of surface water.
And when they dump all this water, where do they think it goes? Much of it will end right back up in the water supply anyhow.
This was posted earlier this week. Their current level of water treatment is more than sufficient to treat this 2 cups of human piss. This is just to have a psychological effect on the public.
This doesn’t sound like he pissed in the surface water basins ( actual watershed) as there is no way to drain those...
On some reality shows, they drink urine if they are stuck on an island....and no untoward consequences happen!
“probably no more than 12 ounces in 38 million gallons of water” = “SMIDGEN”
Now they will add cameras and TSA checkpoints around reservoirs. Just wait.
There are no fish. As for other animals, the reservoir is fenced so it probably keeps out large mammals, but smaller animals and birds definitely have access to it.
What are they going to do when they find out that a bird pooped in it.
By the way...love your tagline....lol
People in TX and other places recycle urine etc.:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1771708/drought-stricken-texas-theyre-drinking-water-recycled-urine
Especially considering what fish do in it and birds do over it. GeeZ. Talk about overkill!!
A student of history, particularly Jewish history, would be aware of the siege of Masada. It is recounted that the sieged eventually grew towards starvation and thirst. It is even documented that they took to straining urine through cheese cloth to have something to drink.
This liberal hysteria and overreaction is unprecedented in my opinion. Are they trying to tell us that their reservoirs are out-of-the-bottle ready to drink with no chlorination, filtering or other processing needed?
Give me a frigging break!
Not good enough. I’m calling for the government to drain the entire ocean.
Every public water system is required to have a security plan after 9/11/01. The larger ones especially with surface water basins in the major metropolitan areas are required to have those security systems in place.
Remember how they caught those “Amish” fellows near the New York City watershed...
let's try a different one
I swear, they do this every 5-6 years. I sometimes think it’s a ruse to paper over some other maintenance issue that they will be doing after they empty the reservoir.
It makes many in drought prone regions shriek about wasting water, but this is Portlandia, land of eternal damp where it rains practically every other day.
“Not from people, at least.”
Meaning that if an animal urinated, it would be ok.
38 million gallons vs 50ccs.
Why not put in effect a public announcement of a boiling order. I mean you can certainly bath in the water.
Plus, we have something called “purifying the water.” THey can’t purify the water?
Yeh, but it’s “protected” sex!
Yeah,but the Portlandia “green” folks are all about
conservation.
sure they are.
For you math/chemistry geeks, this works out to a urine contamination of about 2 ppb (parts per billion).
The EPA allows 5 times as much arsenic and 7 times as much lead as this. Whereas normal urine is not toxic.
Overkill
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