lukethedrifter wrote:City water is stored in reservoir post treatment. St. Louis Water Dept plants are on the rivers. Reservoir is at Grand and 44.
I don't know if that is odd or not, but it sure seems like it. What if an animal dies in there amongst other things that can go wrong? I know StL has good drinking water ratings though, so...huh.
Little Rock, from what I understand treats and pumps to tanks. They have ~2x the storage of their peak day at the plant, and pump from that. I think.
The Compton Hill resevoir is not open to the air. It is basically two big sealed tanks. I don't think it was ever actually open to the air. At one point there were tennis courts on top of it before it was renovated in the 90s. Not sure when the tennis courts were removed, could have been before that.
It's treated water. It's probably more then enough chlorine in it to kill whatever that guy had in his pee to contaminate 30 whatever million gallons of water.
Gashouse wrote:Isn't urine sterile? There are waste chemicals in it, but there isn't bacteria in it like poo.
Yes, it's sterile. And, even though it was apparently already treated water and just waiting to be distributed, the point remains, it was absurd to waste that much water because of one person peeing in it.
