Recently a foolish young man in Portland, OR, stood within view of a
security camera and peed in a reservoir filled with water on its way to
Portland residents.
The city is going to dump the water, all 38 million gallons of it. No
initial word about how much that water is worth or how much of a hassle it will
be to replace it.
Now, here’s the thing: folks who know about stuff like this say that
The Boy Who Couldn’t Wait would have to relieve himself at the reservoir just
about 167,000 times before he could produce a dangerous level of nitrates (from
urea) in the water.
In other words, by any rational analysis, the water was still safe to
drink after TBWCW did his thing.
I wonder if any of Portland’s domestic or wild animal population ever
gets close enough to the water to pee
in it?
I hope the city is making sure that birds don’t fly over the
reservoirs, because, you know, ….
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