Posted on 04/17/2014 7:02:20 AM PDT by don-o
Peeved Portland, Ore., officials plan to drain millions of gallons of treated drinking water from a city reservoir after a teenager was caught on surveillance cameras taking a brazen bathroom break.
The unnamed 19-year-old was captured urinating through the iron fence at the Mount Tabor Reservoir just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, water bureau officials said. Two others with him, ages 18 and 19, were also caught trying to scale a fence.
The unsavory act has prompted officials to decide to flush 38 million gallons of drinking water — or the equivalent of 57 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Generally, urine in such a large volume of treated water poses little risk to the public, and even animals are known to answer the call of nature into the reservoir, which gets its water from the Bull Run watershed.
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As if geese or other birds don't crap in the water. That's why there are treatment plants.
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Since urine is 95% water, we need only be concerned about the 5% of "other" ingredients. Hence,
300 ml of urine X .05 [5%] = 15 ml "other" ingredients
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Therefore, the correct result is
2 parts per billion X .05 = 0.1 Part per Billion!
Therefore,
Most of the residents can drink their bong water in the mean time.
Good thing they don’t know what fish do in it!!
Then there's the reality check. People are imperfect. They sneak into resevoirs to swim and some even pee in the water. Streams that feed the resevoir most probably get runoff from lawn fertilizers (the worst) and overflow septic etc.
Nobody is in charge of common sense anymore.
A reservoir open to all sources of potential pollution may be pre-treated but if it goes directly into the feeder pipes as potable then it defies all health codes federal, state, and local. Open source lakes are not potable water. The lake that fed Rapid City SD and Ellsworth AFB was ALWAYS treated and even at that there were several periods in the fall of a year that the smell of the decaying leaves in the lake carried through the treatment and into homes. The water was however treated and never directly fed into the potable water system. I doubt it very much that this is a direct and untreated source for Portland.
Actually the Bull Run complex has water so clean it doesn’t need treatment.There is no developement in the watershed.
That’s amazing. Still, does one person peeing in the water warrant emptying the resevoir? It’s got to be an infintesimally small percentage of the water. Punish the l’il darlin’s for sure, hopefully with some community service cleaning up sewer overflows or something similar.
Was looking for the Onion tag but guess this is for real.
So now the fools in portland are polluting by throwing out that 38,000,000 gallons of “polluted” water. Just where did they put it? Heads should roll!
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Someone explain the actions of the flying birds.......
They also need to replace all the pipes that feed into everyone’s homes. Those are dirty, too.”””
Another Shovel Ready job for Obama?
Good Lord, our local water reservoir allows fishing and as a kid I took many a leaks in it, along with about every fisherman on the lake. Whats the point of filtration, chlorine, etc...?
Some people have way too much time on their hands and are doing this idiocy to justify their positions and budgets.
Portland’s Mount Tabor Reservoir #5 is viewable on Google Earth at
45°30’41.71”N 122°35’48.02”W
It is right in the middle of fully-developed city, and is the middle of three reservoirs (#1, #5, & #6).
Some mischievous kid will wait until they’re all done cleaning, sterilizing, and testing then whiz in it again.
- Peace on the Enviro-NUTSIES……..
Stupid...
Nope.
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