man urinates in reservoir, water drained off
Eight million gallons of water drained from reservoir after man urinates in it.
The operation is costing the state's taxpayers $36,000 (£22,000) and was ordered after Joshua Seater, 21, was caught on a security camera relieving himself in the pristine lake.
Health experts said the incident would not have caused any harm to people in the city of Portland, who are supplied with drinking water from the reservoir.
They said the average human bladder holds only six to eight ounces, and the urine would have been vastly diluted.
But David Shaff, an administrator at the Portland Water Bureau, defended the decision to empty the lake.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8582593/Eight...
dont the fish excrete? what about the animals living in that area?
is this lake man made or natural?
plus tension also... :/
LOL.
Think of the water he saved by not having to flush :O)
Thousands of dollars versus instilling a sense of hygiene in a community who may ignore a man peeing in water meant for drinking, make your choice. It all starts innocently and than it turns into an epidemic.:-)
He also cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars :O)
I appreciate the high civic/hygiene sense of this man. He witnesses the most distasteful scene and decides to save the whole city from unknown germs plus he sets a firm rule for hither tither wee-wee splashers. Here is my new hero.
Stoopid.
there is always a treatment plant in the outlet chamber of water reservoir ... i don't WTH he is acting like such a dumb? who allowed him to sit on that post :((((
Seriously what an expensive overreaction! This when in many parts of the world people are dying of thirst. Shame on this man! Bet he must suffer from OCD too...sheeesh!
not only peed but alot others like if you remember the teenage girl got pregnant from swimming in a hotel pool
What about all the other things that pee in the lake?
Kind of reminds me with the Egyptian government decided to slaughter all the pigs in the country because of swine flu.
dumb?
no common sense?
A bit of an over reaction methinks .. If they had to drain lakes each time someone peed in them, they'd be draining them daily ;o(
I'm pretty sure swimmers will have peed in it too.
Surely the water is processed and treated before going into peoples houses. Mr. Shaff should be made to pay for that wasted water.
from Portland are sick wicked you know :P