Oh, this again! http://www.thebigfloat.com/
The DEQ assures us that there is most likely only going to be raw sewage in the river occasionally, so hop on in!
QuoteCome on in – the water's fine!
Despite public perception (which we are trying to change), the Willamette River is approved for summer swimming, except in the now very rare instances when Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) conditions are present.
With the Big Pipe project now complete, it's expected that a CSO will occur only once every two summers (but very likely never again). You are more likely to see a whale swim up the Willamette than see a CSO in summer! Oregon DEQ states that when CSO conditions are not present, "the Willamette River is safe for swimming and other recreational uses."
Soooo, how do they know a CSO won't happen?
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I'd stay the fuck out of that water.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on July 24, 2013, 06:04:42 AM
Soooo, how do they know a CSO won't happen?
there will be at least one person who might check it once a day, so there will be a lag time of at least 12 hours if a CSO occurs
don't go swimming if there's a big storm, or if there's a cultural festival with lots of spicy foods
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on July 24, 2013, 06:04:42 AM
Soooo, how do they know a CSO won't happen?
It only happens when it rains a lot! So, if it's raining, or recently rained, don't go swimming.
SIMPLE RULE OF THUMB:
If the rain's coming down, the river is "brown". No rain to be seen? The river is clean!
They just finished The Big Pipe, so last year was the first year the river wasn't full of feces. We'll see how it goes.
We solved this by just not having any water in our rivers.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 24, 2013, 04:09:43 PM
SIMPLE RULE OF THUMB:
If the rain's coming down, the river is "brown". No rain to be seen? The river is clean!
Us in the Northeast haven't seen a "clean" river since the 1630s. Though they say they're the best they've been since the 1970s, pretty much when they closed all the textile mills.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2013, 04:14:31 PM
We solved this by just not having any water in our rivers.
We solved it by just swimming in shit. No joke - my local surf beach has a brown high water mark. As George Carlin once said "The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!"