How'd they do that?

[flo]

On the noon news they told about due to the flooding at Independence, raw sewage was being dumped into the Verdigris River and Rock Creek.  Residents were assured that the sewage was not affecting the drinking water but, and I quote, "animals are being warned not to drink from Rock Creek".

[Jo McDonald]

Maybe I don't mind being with out drinking water after all.   lol lol lol
 That is a terrible thing to hear .  Yesterday when Fred and I came home from Howard, and crossed the dam here at ECSP..the odor was absoultely the worse thing you can imagine -- if I could identify it, that is the odor I would put here on the forum on the Worse Smell thread.
Honestly - we had the A/C on and it poured in that truck like we were driving in a tunnel of the "stuff".  It lasted for about 1/4 of a mile until we started up the next hill.  Then this morning while I was at the office working - there was another report over the scanner that was reporting a horrible odor on south 10th and 11th streets.
I hope the humans have as many smarts as the animals and DON'T DRINK THE WATER.

[Diane Amberg]

 Hopefully the river water goes through a treatment plant before it heads into your water pipes. I wouldn't think any creature, human or otherwise should drink directly from the river. I expect that the fish are now polluted too. I suspect that was raw sewage you smelled. nasty.

[kdfrawg]

Lawrence is also a town with a river that runs through it. That would be the Kansas, or the Kaw if you're a local. We are warned not to eat fish from the Kaw because of all the agricultural runoff upstream. I therefore do not eat fish from the Kaw, at least knowingly. One never knows exactly what my father-in-law is cooking.

There are a number of kinds of "agricultural run-off" and I'm pretty sure I don't want to ingest large quantities of any of them, no matter how acquired. Fortunately, there is indeed a water treatment plant between the river and us. I'm sure that the same is true in Elk County, but that doesn't make the river smell any better.

[Jo McDonald]

It was truly El-Stink-O

[Diane Amberg]

        Si, la agua residuales es maloliente!!

[kdfrawg]

Not very many of the animals are going to be able to read that, Diane, unless they came up from Mexico. A lot of butterflies do that.

I don't want to lose track of Flo's original post. Maybe some of those signs that I see that make no sense at all to me are intended for the animals, in some kind of code. Or maybe they hired Dr, Doolittle to go out and have a talk with the fauna about the drinking water situation.

[flo]

Dr. Doolittle, that's probably it.  Didn't think posting a sign NOTICE, DO NOT DRINK THIS WATER would make much of an impression on a thirsty cow.  - and yes, Diane, all drinking water goes through a treatment plant.

[Jo McDonald]

Dr. Bombay  Dr. Bombay   CALLING DR. BOMBAY !!!

[Janet Harrington]

OMG.  ROFLMAO.  I remember calling Dr. Bombay.