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Reservoir drained due to urine
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| June 16, 2011
Posted on 06/17/2011 9:00:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: mulebones
I sure wouldn’t drink water from an “open” reservoir without boiling it or filtering it through a good filter. That seems so dangerous to me. I don’t drink the water from our town’s closed hilltop tank. We put in a very expensive filter system for drinking water and ice making.
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posted on
06/17/2011 10:43:15 AM PDT
by
WVNan
To: Getready
Polio is mostly contracted through fecal-oral transmission. When it was a major problem in the US many mothers wouldn't let their children swim in public pools. It turns out they were right to do so - small children fouling public pool water was a major decease vector.
-paridel
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posted on
06/17/2011 11:07:23 AM PDT
by
Paridel
To: JoeProBono
To: Paridel
It wasn’t urine which spread polio, but fecal contamination. Any responsible municipality with a surface water supply, like a reservoir, is going to give the water filtration (which will remove many pathogens), possibly coagulation with chemicals to help remove particles, followed finally by disinfection, usually with chlorine. One man urinating in the reservoir is completely trivial.
To: arderkrag
I thought it too was insane UNTIL the last line about him and 4 OTHER people DROPPING ITEMS in the RESERVOIR!!!
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posted on
06/17/2011 11:36:18 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: arderkrag
It’s not like Portland has a water shortage problem. All they have to do is wait a day and the rain will fill it back up.
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posted on
06/17/2011 11:48:36 AM PDT
by
Vor Lady
(The Lord will turn the arena of suffering into a platform of opportunity. R. Zacharias)
To: JoeProBono
no ted kennedy pictures please
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posted on
06/17/2011 12:46:15 PM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: JoeProBono
The homosexual men in Portland are going, “What’s in this water? I’ve tasted this before. Maurice?”
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posted on
06/17/2011 1:07:21 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: arderkrag
The guy took a piss in 8 million gallons of water and these idiots think that polluted the water and made it undrinkable?
Please, please tell me this is a fake story!
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posted on
06/17/2011 7:15:47 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: CommerceComet
To: Dissident1
LOL. That’s a good one. I loved the line: “Portland is where young people go to retire.”
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posted on
06/18/2011 8:44:49 AM PDT
by
CommerceComet
(Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
To: hellbender
It wasnt urine which spread polio, but fecal contamination.
No arguments here. I personally don't understand why you would have an open air reservoir when terrorists are considering going after our water supplies, but some guy peeing it is no reason to drain it. I was just trying to explain why pools are closed when someone defecates in them.
-paridel
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posted on
06/18/2011 11:18:28 AM PDT
by
Paridel
To: Paridel
I doubt that anyone could put enough of something into a reservoir to threaten the health of many people. For one thing, the dilution would be enormous, and many contaminants would biodegrade. For another, public water supplies are filtered and disinfected.
The problem with crapping in a pool is that someone could actually ingest raw solid fecal matter (yech).
It's amazing that millions of people drink from domestic wells in close proximity to their own or their neighbors' septic systems. Quite literally, they are drinking their own wastewater, yet with modern design and construction, there is little risk.
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