Toxik916
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Post by Toxik916 on Apr 17, 2014 12:03:54 GMT -5
Portland then decides they have to dump 38 million gallons of fresh drinking water LinkWhat a f***ing waste of water. Couldn't they just treat it with something? Hell send it down here to California so we can irrigate our crops. Apparently a little pee can hurt something.
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Apr 17, 2014 12:07:09 GMT -5
Guess Jonathan Crane said forget the fear toxin and use pee instead?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 12:23:25 GMT -5
I get it. They really can't have the general public knowing there is urine in the water supply, even if its 3 ounces in a 50 million gallon resevoir. Its a wasteful PR move, but I can't imagine people would be ok with drinking even the barest amount of urine.
Though it is Portland, so maybe they'd just want to know if the kid ate any gluten first.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 12:38:28 GMT -5
So this is a PR move, then. Because I refuse to believe no animal has ever relieved itself in or near that resevoir before, or that a major city like Portland does not have a water treatment system like virtually every other city in the civilized world.....
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Post by DSR on Apr 17, 2014 12:45:06 GMT -5
Who is the man that won't accept pee in his water can?
SHAFF
You damn right!
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Post by Push R Truth on Apr 17, 2014 12:46:12 GMT -5
Force the son of a bitch to drink all 38 million gallons. That's only...
Let's see, At New Orleans, the average flow rate of the Mississippi is 600,000 cubic feet per second... about 7.489 gallons of water in a cubic foot. So 4,493,400 gallons a second. He'd have to drink the entire Mississippi for about 8 and a half seconds.
I think it's appropriate.
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Post by Spider2024 on Apr 17, 2014 12:50:32 GMT -5
The stream of those teenagers is alive in Portland.
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Apr 17, 2014 13:06:10 GMT -5
This has either happened before or this is an older story.
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Post by burdette25159 on Apr 17, 2014 13:10:50 GMT -5
Is Portland in a "pretend drought" as a result?
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Post by Cela on Apr 17, 2014 13:26:30 GMT -5
Frikkin hipster cops.
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Post by 67 more on Apr 17, 2014 13:48:34 GMT -5
Seriously, that urine is so diluted that it's nothing (and the fact that birds probably fly over the reservoir all the time crapping on it). What a waste.
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Apr 17, 2014 14:09:09 GMT -5
So Portland is becoming the new Florida?
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Apr 17, 2014 14:41:36 GMT -5
Well Portlandia has an episode idea now.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Apr 17, 2014 14:42:33 GMT -5
So Portland is becoming the new Florida? well they've clearly seen all the press they've gotten over the years ("there's no such thing as bad publicity") and now they want some of that action
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 15:00:00 GMT -5
This is exactly the kind of decision I could see Mayor Kyle McLachlan making.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Apr 17, 2014 15:39:02 GMT -5
I can't be the only one who thought of the Simpsons when I first read the thread title.
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Post by willywonka666 on Apr 17, 2014 17:45:36 GMT -5
The dump THAT much water and gave the bastards a citation? No way-TOO lenient there. Imagine the cost
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Post by Toxik916 on Apr 17, 2014 19:16:32 GMT -5
Just saw an update on this and unsurprisingly they found no traces of urine in the water, but they still flushed 38 million gallons of it. What a waste! People in 3rd world countries would kill for water of that quality.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 17, 2014 21:46:53 GMT -5
Unless you have a bacterial infection of some sort, urine is sterile. No need to do this, at all. 38 million gallons will swallow up that urine, it's a drop in the ocean.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Apr 17, 2014 22:06:05 GMT -5
Hey Oregon can you send that here a few miles south to NorCal? We have a bit of a drought going in the Sacramento area. I'll gladly take your uninfected water in place of the fines we're facing in the area for running extra water on certain days.
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