Boys, the world is not your bathroom.
A 19-year-old Portland man’s decision to urinate in the city’s Mount Tabor Reservoir 5 pushed .听听
On April 16, a security officer noticed a group of young men trespassing in the reservoir. In addition to climbing the fence and taking selfies, .
“When you see the video, he’s leaning right up because he has to get his little wee-wee right up to the iron bars. There’s really no doubt what he’s doing,” Water Bureau administrator David Shaff said in an interview with the Oregonian. “It’s stupid. You can see the sign that says, ‘This is your drinking water. Don’t spit, throw, toss anything in it.'” The three offenders were issued citations.
Water Bureau officials quickly took the water supply offline and are planning to test the water for contaminants today. Shaff said he doesn’t think the incident yielded a public health risk, but the bureau will flush the reservoir during the course of the week and again in a month as a precaution.
“The bottom line is that our commitment is to serve water that’s clean, cold, and constant,” Shaff said. “That doesn鈥檛 include pee. Not from people, at least.”
The draining, roughly a 17 percent depletion of the city’s drinking water reserve capacity, marks . Portland emptied 7.8 million gallons of water when a man, assuming he was at a sewage treatment plant, peed into the reservoir in 2011.听
Water Bureau representative Tim Hall told 国产吃瓜黑料 that he’s not at all concerned about drinking water shortages. According to Hall, at least one of the city’s reservoirs is already empty.听
“We’re fortunate enough to have an abundance of water,” he said. “We have the ability to not have to rely on our reservoirs.”
For the time being, we suggest not relying on Portland’s reservoirs either.