February 14, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, futureman said: I bet you selfish fucks didn’t properly drain and clean your boats a couple years ago when all this was taking hold. and now you show up and bitch about the utility company. this has nothing to do with austin utilities and everything to do with lazy, entitled boaters. I'm far too poor to have a boat.
February 14, 20196 yr Once again, my pool water is safer to drink than my tap water. The struggle of the Surly 1% is real.
February 14, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, futureman said: I bet you shellfish fucks didn’t properly drain and clean your boats a couple years ago when all this was taking hold. and now you show up and bitch about the utility company. this has nothing to do with austin utilities and everything to do with lazy, entitled boaters. fixed. Edited February 14, 20196 yr by Chips O'Toole
February 14, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Chips O'Toole said: fixed. bravo sir. That's a strong move to the paint.
February 15, 20196 yr I’ve a water filtration system for house. Never noticed anything. No zebra mussel pee made it through.
February 15, 20196 yr I can't help but think the zebra mussel excuse was a cover for some bigger fuckup.
February 16, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, Deej said: I can't help but think the zebra mussel excuse was a cover for some bigger fuckup. Like after the October surprise, our City leadership is as incompetent as is municipally possible...
February 16, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, KaiserSoze said: Like a corpse stuck in the system? jesus mary and joseph. I’m never drinking tap water again.
February 16, 20196 yr Just now, futureman said: jesus mary and joseph. I’m never drinking tap water again. Homeless people gotta die somewhere.
February 16, 20196 yr That Elisa Lam case, where she died in the water tank on top of that hotel in L.A. People were complaining about the water tasting funny. Yeesh!
February 16, 20196 yr 6 minutes ago, Deej said: That Elisa Lam case, where she died in the water tank on top of that hotel in L.A. People were complaining about the water tasting funny. Yeesh! I remember that. nightmare fuel.
February 16, 20196 yr 11 hours ago, Deej said: That Elisa Lam case, where she died in the water tank on top of that hotel in L.A. People were complaining about the water tasting funny. Yeesh! Yeah but at least it was MSG-free.
February 18, 20196 yr Dead bodies in lake Travis all the time, not to mention tons of fish shit. Then poor Bastrop drinks Austin’s treated sewage water laced with the shit of 1.5 million Mexican Freetail bats.
March 4, 20196 yr I still don't understand why people don't have whole home filtration/softening in COA the water isn't great...
March 4, 20196 yr There's absolutely no way the water utility could have foreseen or prepared for this. Oh wait, they were warned about this issue 18 months ago by their own employees: Quote More than a year before foul-smelling water poured from Austin’s faucets and showers, Mehrdad Morabbi, Austin Water’s operations manager, gave a stark presentation about the invasion of zebra mussels in the Lower Colorado River lake system. The mollusks had been detected in Lake Travis in June 2017 and two months later, they were found in Lake Austin. With the two lakes that supply Austin’s water system on the verge of infestation, it was a given that the invasive mussels — native to fresh waters in Eurasia — would soon hit the city’s three water treatment plants. “It is time for us to start rolling into action,” Morabbi told the city’s Water and Wastewater Commission. Morabbi suggested using a sodium permanganate mitigation system, incorporating a chemical treatment that causes the mussels to detach from treated areas. Estimated to cost $1.1 million, the system — already in use in Dallas and being built at treatment plants that serve Round Rock, Cedar Park and Leander — would require 18 months to design and build. The yet-to-be-built mitigation system will eventually be replaced by a more-permanent safeguard against zebra mussels. At that $1.1 million price tag, Austin Water could have acted on Morabbi’s recommendation immediately, using a discretionary fund to cover construction and installation. Instead, officials waited 18 months to move forward, and the sodium permanganate system remains unbuilt. Hey, but we have artists embedded with the watershed department and tons and tons of bike lanes!! Priorities. link
March 4, 20196 yr If someone had told Ann Kitchen those unlicensed zebra mussels might possibly assault and rape unsuspecting swimmers, she would have leapt into action. Edited March 4, 20196 yr by Deej
March 4, 20196 yr Nope, the proposed Council review of Austin Water was/is uncalled for/frivolous. The way they shouted down Troxclair at the time makes me wonder what they knew back then.
March 5, 20196 yr 14 hours ago, Deej said: If someone had told Ann Kitchen those unlicensed zebra mussels might possibly assault and rape unsuspecting swimmers, she would have leapt into action. That's it!! All zebra mussels need to provide fingerprints before they can take up residence in our lakes.
March 5, 20196 yr On Zebra Mussel day, I filled my coffee pot with filtered water from my fridge, then proceeded to cycle it 10 times in my coffee maker until frothy diarrhea wasn't coming out of it.
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