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Looks like an employee at the Trenton Water Works has been peeing in my drinking water. Good thing he's been suspended for six months. That means I've got six months of pee-free water. Yay!


http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18088076&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6

but pee cleans things!

I think the guy who demands to know what his intentions were is kind of funny... :D

okay, I'm just glad people don't do such stupid things in Poland.

Yeah. As far as you know.

okay, find an article about some-one pissing into the tapwater, of, say... anywhere in Poland.

Just because someone didn't write an article about it doesn't mean it hasn't happened.

okay, I'm just glad people don't do such stupid things in Poland.

Yeah. As far as you know.

okay, find an article about some-one pissing into the tapwater, of, say... anywhere in Poland.

Ok....this guy's sick. What possessed him to piss in drinking water?

Ok....this guy's sick. What possessed him to piss in drinking water?

It's Trenton. We do shit like that. I once pissed in someone's tool box.

Ok....this guy's sick. What possessed him to piss in drinking water?

I'm guessing he lost a bet.

I live near the northern most city on the Mississippi River. The city santation system dumps its "clean" water into the Mississippi River. So everytime I take a leak in that fair city someone down river drinks my pea. Have a good day. ;)

okay, find an article about some-one pissing into the tapwater, of, say... anywhere in Poland.

After a quick search, I have found that urine would probably improve the quality of tap water in Poland.

It's Trenton. We do shit like that. I once pissed in someone's tool box.

Well at least thats not as bad as pissing in someones lunch box!

I am guessing that person must also live in the area...and would be drinking the same water ? :confused:

I'm guessing he lost a bet.
Wouldn't he probably have just won a bet?

The Trenton Waterworks employee, Ken Starkey, was suspended for six months without pay, according to Kathy McBride, president of the Mothers Against Violence.
'Mothers Against Violence' investigates water filtration? :confused:

If he urinated into the filters that purify the water... wouldn't the contaminated water have been purified anyway?

Sillyness. And you're not even Camden! :p

Looks like an employee at the Trenton Water Works has been peeing in my drinking water. Good thing he's been suspended for six months. That means I've got six months of pee-free water. Yay!


http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18088076&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6

I hope nothing happens to you.
Drinking piss isn't what G0D had in mind when HE created us.
It would be sad.

okay, find an article about some-one pissing into the tapwater, of, say... anywhere in Poland.
After a quick search, I have found that urine would probably improve the quality of tap water in Poland.

I do seem to recall reading an advisory to drink bottled water when in Poland...

I hope nothing happens to you.
Drinking piss isn't what G0D had in mind when HE created us.
It would be sad.

God keeps insisting I was like this when he got here.

If he urinated into the filters that purify the water... wouldn't the contaminated water have been purified anyway?

No.

In the average water treatment plant, the process is pretty much as follows:

1) 'Raw' water enters the plant from upstream - either from lake, river, etc. Sometimes, this will involve effluent from a wastewater plant - but that's not as bad as it sounds, since the restrictions on how much contamination can come out of a wastewater plant are pretty strict. If you want to worry about sources, a dye factory, or a metal factory upstream should be a much bigger worry than a sewage plant.

2) 'Coagulation' chemicals are added. This causes the solid material in the water (sand, silt, algae, pathogen cysts) to bundle together. Disinfection may or may not occur at this point. The most common agents used here are alum (to cause coagulation), lime (to make the chemical balance right for the coagulation to occur), and chlorine (to disinfect, and to react with things like metal ions in the water).

3) The treated water 'settles' out, flowing through a series of settling basins - most of the solid material that has been coagulated settles to the bottom of the basins at this stage.

4) Filtration - the relatively clean water flows through filters - usually comprised of anthracite coal, sand, and gravel - although other materials such as just plain sand, 'greensand', or (nowadays) synthetic filtration materials, might be used.

At this stage, most of the material has settled. What is left is filtered to remove remaining solids. This is not a treatment, it's just a slow filter - would you drink water that came through a coffee filter that someone had peed in?

In the 'good news', the anthracite coal acts a bit like a carbon filter, so it might take out some of the taste and colour of the pee.

5) In the last stage, post-treatment takes place. The most common ingredient will be chlorine, which is added to the storage body (reservoir, or 'clearwell'). This does provide some last stage disinfection.

So - peeing in the filter beds is pretty bad, especially if you have any disease - since almost all the chemical treatment has already occured. Yes - chlorine will probably be added later (almost all plants do that), but - would you drink a cup of pee, if it had been treated with chlorine?

The 'good thing' is that a plant supplying a county, probably treats millions of gallons of water per day, so the amount of pee in the finished water is incredibly dilute.

5) In the last stage, post-treatment takes place. The most common ingredient will be chlorine, which is added to the storage body (reservoir, or 'clearwell'). This does provide some last stage disinfection.


Isn't fluorine the most commonly added ingredient?

Oh man, I am so sending this to my brother and his fiancée. They just moved to Jersey. :D

Muahahahahaha...!

Lucky them.

Oh man, I am so sending this to my brother and his fiancée. They just moved to Jersey. :D

Muahahahahaha...!

Isn't fluorine the most commonly added ingredient?

No.

First - not all systems have to add fluoride. There are weird rules about it, though - once a system HAS added it, they have to continue adding it... effectively, there is no such thing as a 'trial run'.

Second - Fluoride isn't added as a disinfectant (which is what I was basically discussing in that context). It is entirely added as a 'health benefit'. Other non-disinfectant chemicals might be added - such as a phosphate (to stop corrosion in the underground supply pipes) or lime (again, to bring the chemical balance of the water to 'acceptable' levels). Other 'alkaline salts' might be added instead of lime, for the same reason. But the majority of disinfection will be done with chlorine, because it leaves a good residiual disinfection in the water IN the pipes.

So - overall, chlorine probably is the most used post-treatment chemical, in terms of how many places use it. It is certainly the most used post-treatment disinfection.

I do seem to recall reading an advisory to drink bottled water when in Poland...

what part of Poland where you in, and at what time.

Lucky them.

Oh, indeed. I'm sure it will sink in eventually. :)

It's Trenton. We do shit like that. I once pissed in someone's tool box.

Guess that makes you a tool, eh?

Looks like an employee at the Trenton Water Works has been peeing in my drinking water. Good thing he's been suspended for six months. That means I've got six months of pee-free water. Yay!


http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18088076&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6

Good Lord! Please tell me that people here in Middlesex don't get water from the same water works as you folks in Mercer.