But…it’s Portland? It rains a lot, yes? It’ll probably recharge in no time.
Again, the Resevoir holds treated water. It isn’t made to collect appreciable amounts of rainwater.
The wiki article on Mount Tabor has some details on the system. But basically, the cost of occasionally draining one of the pools when something the public might find icky happens is four orders of magnitude smaller then rebuilding the system to have covered tanks.
Oooooh, my mystake.
I thought it was UNtreated water with gull shit in it…not PREtreated water with gull shit in it. :smack:
Now I feel sorry for that poor tree out behind my house that I pee behind.
Is it going to die?
The City of Portland was ordered to cover its reservoirs several years ago and has been fighting, and losing, in court for years too. They finally ran out of legal options last June and are reluctantly moving forward with plans to cover them.
They will now get around to it, eventually, by the end of 2020, maybe.
A quick peek at some stats shows that the water dumped was only about 18 hours of fresh water usage for Portland (actually Multnomah County.) So in the big scheme of things it’s kind of a tempest in a peapot.
The articles I found said that the offender is nineteen years old, so not really a “kid.”
In a completely unscientific poll, the vast majority of people think it is unnecessary to dump the water. Currently only 10% say it’s “gross”. So don’t blame us regular Portlanders for going all portlandia somehow.
We’ve also had a really wet couple of months and our main watershed reservoir is pretty much full, so it’s not a big deal to dump this water.
As for the bird poop argument, they say that bird poop is unavoidable, but human pee is. Kind of a pointless distinction, but there it is.
Then they’d be concerned that if people drink it, they’ll be really pissed.
They could put it in a tanker and sell it in southern California.
The Portland media merely reads press releases. They don’t do investigative reporting. If they did, perhaps they need to ask those Water Bureau employees down in the trenches about the leaking water pipes and leaking sewer pipes exchanging molecules.
There was a fence. The kids climbed over it to get to the water.
Also lots of great beer, so the pee should be replenished soon as well.
Probably knot, but it’s rooting for you to leaf it alone. Or branch out to other areas of the yard.
You guys think urea funny, don’t you.
Anyone care to speculate or guess how many times that reservoir has been peed in previously?
That’s what I’d do. “Why, don’t worry Mr. Smith, we’ll drain & refill the reservoir tonight, while you’re sleeping. By tomorrow morning there won’t be a single molecule of urine left.” :rolleyes:
I was wondering the same thing.
“So when are you going to flush this reservoir and refill it with new water?”
“We did it last night.”
“Really? You drained the entire reservoir and refilled it in a single night? And you expect me to believe that?”
“You have a choice of what you want to believe. You can believe we drained out all the water last night and replaced it with new water. Or you can spend the next few months believing there’s piss in your drinking water.”
“I see…so I guess you must have some high tech draining system that’s down there where I can’t see it, huh?”
“Sure, why not.”
They should rename the city Ortland.
