By Mona Goldwater, Public Dilemma Editor
A 21-year-old Oregon man was recently caught peeing in one of Portland's main reservoirs. The city drained all 7.8 million gallons at a cost of $36,000. Portland Water Bureau administrator David Schaff asked reporters "Do you want to drink pee?"
This has to be the world's most expensive leak, ever. And, when they drained that open reservoir, I bet they found squirrels, bats, birds, slugs, and other critters that makes the reason they drained the reservoir in the first place seem trivial
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What's really ridiculous about that story was the interview with the reservoir manager who decided to drain the pool because of the "ick factor." I'm paraphrasing, but he said he didn't want parents to be thinking about someone's pee in their water when they're making OJ for the kids in the morning. He then goes on to say that if he drained the reservoir every time they found a dead animal or foreign opbject in the reservoir, he'd be draining it three times a week.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but dead racoon is more "ick" in my book than a little human pee. Human pee-- which is sterile to begin with and is then sterilized again by the reservoir's chlorination process. Dead racoon on the other hand is a freaking prison system of germs and bacteria just waiting for a debt ceiling default to happen.
Let's face it...the FDA allows six rat hairs in a box of Wheaties and many other "additives." One pint of whiz in 8 million gallons of water seems pretty clean.
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