Posted on 02/09/2015 3:50:22 PM PST by doug from upland
A mid-level San Francisco water manager is under fire for urinating into a reservoir that’s a source of drinking water for 2.5 million Bay Area customers.
City Hall sources tell us that Martin Sanchez, a $111,000-a-year maintenance planner for the Public Utilities Commission, will probably be suspended without pay for the maximum five days allowed as a result of the Jan. 6 incident at the Priest Reservoir in the Sierra foothills near Sonora.
Priest is one of four holding reservoirs for San Francisco and other Bay Area cities that receive Hetch Hetchy water.
Utilities commission spokesman Tyrone Jue said the 674 million-gallon reservoir had been “completely drained” for maintenance when Sanchez used it as a urinal. Although the urine posed no health danger, Jue said, his action was “not acceptable.”
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Fish do it all the time plus have sex in it also....So I hear
Suspended for 5 days? How about fired!
He’s overpaid
Are they going to suspend the fish that poop and pee in it too?
Are they going to flush the reservoir, isn’t that what Portland did/was going to when teen peed in one of theirs? This guy should be charged as a terrorist for poisoning the water supply! That’ll teach him to go pee before he leaves the office.
Seriously, no big deal.
This is exactly what Leftist officials do to us every day.
We drink it, eat it, and lap it up every day.
Enjoy San Franciscans. You voted for the a hole.
Somehow, this doesn't seem to be a problem.
Okay, then the people they voted for hired him. Eventually gets back to the same problem.
“It seems a bit extreme, but officials in Portland, Ore., are preparing to flush an entire city reservoir because one teenager took a leak in its waters.
Water Bureau Administrator David Shaff says 38 million gallons will be thrown out because a 19-year-old skateboarder was seen adding his own liquid to the kidney-shaped lake.
It’s the second time a city drinking water repository has been drained because someone took a leak in it.
In 2011, officials drained 7.5 million gallons from a nearby reservoir.”
674 million-gallon reservoir
Somehow, this doesn’t seem to be a problem.
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GEEZ , how many people here have swum in a hotel pool... because we all know that nobody EVER pees in them...
This TV-addled generation really has little touch with reality, do they.
That’s insane.
Fish don’t pee in Hetch Hetchy Reservoir?
I can imagine a person being fired for public urination but in San Francisco that is too common
MID LEVEL=$100,000+
The solution to pollution is dilution.
Organic homeopathy?
I bet he’s a homo.
How many birds have dropped loads in that reservoir?
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