Reservoir to Get Drained After Teen Pees in Water

[NJmike PE]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/portland-reservoir-be-drained-after-teen-pees-water-n82901

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.

Nineteen-year-old Trey Michael McDaniel was captured urinating through the iron fence at the Mount Tabor Reservoir just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, police and water bureau officials said.

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.

How is this even something that would be traceable. Get a grip people.

 

[matt267 PE]

wait. Why do that have treated water being stored in an open area like that anyway. There is likely more bird poop in that water then there is human piss.

 

[NJmike PE]

wait. Why do that have treated water being stored in an open area like that anyway. There is likely more bird poop in that water then there is human piss.

exactly my point. lets get a grip ppl

 

[Exception Collection]

wait. Why do that have treated water being stored in an open area like that anyway. There is likely more bird poop in that water then there is human piss.

It's probably not treated (yet); it's where natural sources are gathered for future distribution. Which makes this even sillier.

 

[matt267 PE]

wait. Why do that have treated water being stored in an open area like that anyway. There is likely more bird poop in that water then there is human piss.

It's probably not treated (yet); it's where runoff is gathered for future distribution. Which makes this even sillier.

That's what I thought at first, but the article says:

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.

However, we all know how accurate the media can be.

 

[NJmike PE]

exactly. It's not treated. It's the same as when they refer to concrete as cement. Dummies

 

[goodal]

There's a difference?

 

[matt267 PE]

exactly. It's not treated. It's the same as when they refer to concrete as cement. Dummies

We talk to the media a lot via press releases and phone interviews. It's amazing how the reported still messes up important details even when you spell it out for them in writing.

 

[Mike in Gastonia]

How is this even something that would be traceable. Get a grip people.

Quite right. I thought the solution to pollution was dilution?

 

[Predgw]

I just did an interview yesterday. The reporter asked about the flexi-floats being moved into position. I explained they were for access to certain points on the river.

The headline for the article today is " Bridge to be built off barges"

Hmmnnn

 

[Exception Collection]

Hmm. The article I'd read (yesterday) didn't state it was treated, but from what I'm seeing elsewhere it apparently is. That's bizarre to me.

 

[Flyer_PE]

Does this reservoir have fish in it? If so, you know what they're doing in there. Just like a bear in the woods. Speaking of bears, are there any doing what they do in the woods where the water comes from in the first place?

 

[csb]

How is this even something that would be traceable. Get a grip people.

Quite right. I thought the solution to pollution was dilution?

Pretty sure that's what it says in the CERM.

 

[Road Guy]

Oregon- that's where people from Boulder go when they feel Boulder isn't Eco-smug-liberal-elitist enough for them...

 

[Exception Collection]

Oregon- that's where people from Boulder go when they feel Boulder isn't Eco-smug-liberal-elitist enough for them...

Actually, Oregon has quite a large conservative population. It's really only Portland and Eugene that are Eco-smug-liberal, and neither is "elitist" so much as they are "hippy" or "yuppie".

Seattle, on the other hand...

 

[Road Guy]

It's probably all relative... In Oregon if you don't recycle your own **** your probably a neocon.....

 

[rktman]

How is this even something that would be traceable. Get a grip people.

Quite right. I thought the solution to pollution was dilution?

Pretty sure that's what it says in the CERM.

That is freaking HILARIOUS!!!

 

[cement]

Wait, was the guy a walker?

 

[jeb6294]

According to the news report, there is no treatment between the reservoir and the tap.

If I had to guess, this is only being done due to the public perception. If they didn't have the guy on video plastered all over the news, it would have been business as usual.

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[Sapper PE LS]

Somebody needs to call ******** on this. Fresh, treated tap water isn't stored in an open reservoir. This town needs to get a grip, how absolutely insane is this.