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Portland will flush 38 million gallons of water after man urinates in Mt. Tabor Reservoir
oregonlive.com ^

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: dumb; humor; satire; watershed; watersupply
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1 posted on 04/18/2014 8:07:26 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Seems a tad excessive to me.


2 posted on 04/18/2014 8:07:47 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Urine trouble now.


3 posted on 04/18/2014 8:07:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red in Blue PA

Good thing birds never fly over it and poop.


4 posted on 04/18/2014 8:07:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Forgot to add, what about the ducks who may land on it? Is it 38 Million gallons for each duck or bird or fish?


5 posted on 04/18/2014 8:08:46 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What fools run this country…


6 posted on 04/18/2014 8:09:21 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Libtards....what don’t they know?


7 posted on 04/18/2014 8:09:22 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

What are they going to do when they find out that a bird pooped in it.


8 posted on 04/18/2014 8:09:36 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep, I’ve wondered that too.

Open air reservoirs everywhere have birds and other assorted animals, who will do their business there.

Yet, we’re all in a panic about one guy urinating into millions of gallons of water????


9 posted on 04/18/2014 8:10:15 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (Im)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am glad there are no fish in this lake, obviously the urine and feces of these critters would make them want to dump another 38 million gallons. Good call. Wise choices, can´t get any better in making simple choices that protect people. We don´t need to buy water in a bottle when we can clean up an entire lake.


10 posted on 04/18/2014 8:10:28 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Red in Blue PA

It is madness. If anyone were to investigate the amount of rat schidt allowed in corn meal, wheat products, etc. they would happen upon a government allowance that probably approaches the concentration levels here (probably no more than 12 ounces in 38 million gallons of water).

This is utterly ludicrous, especially since urine is sterile.


11 posted on 04/18/2014 8:11:35 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Red in Blue PA

FISH HAVE SEX IN THAT WATER!...............


12 posted on 04/18/2014 8:11:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Are their fish in that reservoir? Does any wildlife use this 38 million gallons of water?

This is government intelligence at work here.


13 posted on 04/18/2014 8:11:42 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Oh the birds in the sky will be laughing loudly as they pee overhead while flying by and the fish would giggle if their gills only let let them and the fox letting fly on the sly.


14 posted on 04/18/2014 8:12:04 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Red Badger

I many never drink water again after that post.

Someone needs to start flushing NOW!


15 posted on 04/18/2014 8:12:09 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Gaffer

AMEN..............


16 posted on 04/18/2014 8:12:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Red in Blue PA
“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.”

So, if a herd of moose gets in the reservoir, it's OK?

Keep paying your property taxes, you stupid Oregon peasants.

Lord Shaff needs to put a new deck on his vacation home this summer...

17 posted on 04/18/2014 8:13:16 AM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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18 posted on 04/18/2014 8:14:22 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good Grief! Whoever runs that water plant where the treatment takes care of any issues should have spoken up.
Yes, birds poop, fish poop, fish die, and all kinds of unsanitary things will happen in a reservoir that large.
Urine is sterile, and what those stranded on the ocean drink when they run out of water....not the ocean salt water.
There are water plants in places that recycle the urine for drinking water. Are these people in possession of any brains? Or did they plan to drain out 38 million gallons anyway? How much did that decision cost taxpayers?


19 posted on 04/18/2014 8:15:30 AM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Fido969

Wait till they drain it and find a layer of dead animals in the bottom of it.


20 posted on 04/18/2014 8:16:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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