Judy grasswire plays nadin

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024990474

Oh my.

I thought for sure the cousin'd snatch this scoop before anybody else.

<<<wonders if the pie-and-jam primitive has one of those superduper scanners, like nadin does.

grasswire (40,276 posts)    Fri May 23, 2014, 02:49 PM

Portland OR on boil water alert as of Fri. a.m. -- e coli

This is in the same group of reservoirs where one was drained several weeks ago due to a man urinating through the fence into the water supply.

0rganism (17,191 posts)    Fri May 23, 2014, 02:59 PM

1. i don't remember this happening in the 18 or so years i lived in SE Portland

1987 - 2004, not a problem.

Fed orders everyone to use only covered/sealed reservoirs because terrists ya know

City water bureau goes ahead looking into contracts for underground reservoirs & pumping & so on

Movement to save the mt tabor reservoirs happens

People get caught pissing in the reservoirs (like noone ever did before?)

E-coli alert, everybody boil your water, oh by the way do you know how open your reservoirs are?
 
i dunno, it feels like a hard sell...

grasswire (40,276 posts)    Fri May 23, 2014, 03:01 PM

2. yeah. local media will be all about that

Bunch of scaredy cats sit in those anchor seats.

Wolf Frankula (764 posts)    Fri May 23, 2014, 03:06 PM

3. Now they will use this as a reason

to raise the water rates again. All those pet projects have to be funded.

[FlippyDoo]

I'm leery of trusting a single word of this until such time that nadin verifies it.

Oh, instructs on the proper way to boil water.

[franksolich]

I'm leery of trusting a single word of this until such time that nadin verifies it.

Oh, instructs on the proper way to boil water.

Actually, I'm rather impressed.

Judy grasswire managed to get this information without the help of a superduper scanner.

The cousin would need the scanner.

[FlippyDoo]

Actually, I'm rather impressed.

Judy grasswire managed to get this information without the help of a superduper scanner.

The cousin would need the scanner.

Nads may be having trouble with the scanner again. Just a nit.

[GOBUCKS]

I'm more curious about how a city's drinking water treatment system isn't effective enough to tolerate a kid pissing in a bazillion gallon reservoir.

What if a possum or a muskrat drowned? Would they bring in trainloads of drinking water?

I have a hunch the whole panic was caused more by Youtube than piss.

[Mr Mannn]

I'm more curious about how a city's drinking water treatment system isn't effective enough to tolerate a kid pissing in a bazillion gallon reservoir.

What if a possum or a muskrat drowned? Would they bring in trainloads of drinking water?

I have a hunch the whole panic was caused more by Youtube than piss.

^ This. What struck me was the claim they drained an entire reservoir for that one guy.
Dirty filthy fish live and poop in that water all the time. Treatment plants purify the water before it goes to the tap.

I'm with GoBucks on this. If a reservoir got drained it was for a far more serious reasons than some drunk kid.

[Chris_]

What struck me was the claim they drained an entire reservoir for that one guy.
Dirty filthy fish live and poop in that water all the time. Treatment plants purify the water before it goes to the tap.

I'm with GoBucks on this. If a reservoir got drained it was for a far more serious reasons than some drunk kid.

I remember reading story in the news and wondering the same thing.

[thundley4]

^ This. What struck me was the claim they drained an entire reservoir for that one guy.
Dirty filthy fish live and poop in that water all the time. Treatment plants purify the water before it goes to the tap.

I'm with GoBucks on this. If a reservoir got drained it was for a far more serious reasons than some drunk kid.

The way I understand it is that the reservoir is water that has been treated, but only undergoes some further minor treatment before hitting the pipes.  Apparently people were ignorant of the fact that birds and other animals poop in the water until someone was caught taking a leak.  They dumped something like 38,000,000 gallons of water.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/04/17/portland-ore-is-dumping-38-million-gallons-of-drinking-water-because-of-a-urinating-teenager/?tid=pm_pop

[BlueStateSaint]

I'm more curious about how a city's drinking water treatment system isn't effective enough to tolerate a kid pissing in a bazillion gallon reservoir.

What if a possum or a muskrat drowned? Would they bring in trainloads of drinking water?

I have a hunch the whole panic was caused more by Youtube than piss.

It's the perception that they're going after.  If they're seen as doing whatever they can to keep drinking water safe, they likely can get money for things that actually will keep the water supply safe, such as covered reservoirs (I've seen 1 million gallon reservoirs covered).  Something along the lines of a mid-size city's reservoir would be impossible to cover, so these covered reservoirs are generally downstream of the treatment plant and generally hold only enough water for a couple of days at the most.  One of the cities near me has a 1-million gallon covered reservoir that is downstream of their springs where they get a majority of their water from.  Three others have open reservoirs, with the treatment plants downstream from the reservoir, and I'm sure that all sorts of stuff shows up in the influent into those plants.  The NYC Water System goes through a good deal of the Catskill Mountains and, as far as I know, has no treatment plants outside of the NYC limits (else I'd have to do appraisals on them).

I remember something my supervisor, when I tested drinking water for NYS for 13 years, said to me--"Dilution is the solution to pollution."  I'm sure that there's duck and goose fecal matter (and other fecal matter) in a lot of water out there.  It's in such tiny amounts so as to be nonexistent.

It's all a matter of perception.