August 7, 2008
Port-a-Potties Dumped in Four Mile Run Stream
Ick, ew, gross. Someone has illegally dumped waste from port-a-potties into Four Mile Run Stream near Westover Park in Arlington County. Arlington Alert sent out warnings earlier today telling residents not to fish in or have any contact with the waters – including wading or swimming – until further notice. The Post has a story up about the dumping, and quotes an Arlington parks official describing water near the spill as "blue, crummy and yucky and it smells of the deodorizer and human waste." The stream runs along other Arlington recreation areas like Bon Air, Bluemont, Glencaryln and Shirlington parks, and ends up in the Potomac. Arlington officials are investigating -- this is actually the second such dumping in as many weeks at the same location.
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Well that's certainly more cost-effective than paying the portolet guy to vaccuum all that stuff out of the commode. These guys are thinking smarter, not harder! Reminds me of the NJ mob families that were running the toxic waste disposal business, which consisted of them picking the stuff up, then driving all night down the Jersey turnpike with the spigots open.
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so basically it resembles the Potomac now.
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"All pipes lead to the ocean"
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Sounds like Arlington needs a guard turtle.
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"All pipes lead to the ocean"
Unfortunately that's true but that doesn't mean we have to dump shit in every body of water we see! People are so gross...
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Poor Nemo. He bit the Big Brown One. I don't have the heart to tell Marlin. But maybe next time he'll listen to his father.
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"blue, crummy and yucky and it smells of the deodorizer and human waste."
sounds a lot like the attitudes of most people that live in arlington, wow!
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As much shit as PG County gets from you all, I'm happy to see that ARLINGTON gets the raw sewage award.
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"blue, crummy and yucky and it smells of the deodorizer and human waste."
Sniff. I miss the bathroom at the old 930 Club.
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i knew there was something in that virginia water...
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You'd figure this would happen the minute I retire the sewage trebuchet. Where were these guys five months ago?
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I guess the dream of joining together nature's Port-a-Potty with that of man was just that, a beautiful dream. And lo, how the earth mother cried brown tears of sorrow.
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I knew I whiffed a foul odor on my morning jog. FREDTERP
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i knew i inhaled a pungent odor as i sat on the bog. MCGILLICUDDY
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Arlington .. The new Staten Island.
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How do they know it was a spilled port-a-potty, and not just someone with a bad case of the four mile runs?
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I don't know about any four mile "runs" but the last time I had the reuben sandwich at Whitlows on Wilson, the russian dressing sent me russian to the toilet with the Trotskys.
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Four Mile Run is right behind my building, and it smells like raw sewage at least twice per week. At least this time there's a clear reason for it.
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"You'd figure this would happen the minute I retire the sewage trebuchet"
Well, Monkey, sounds like we got ourselves a prime suspect. Just had to unload all your extra "ammo", huh? Would've gotten away with it too if it were for them dern middlers.
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Um, that was me, sorry- I thought small urbanized virginia streams were for dumping porta-potties into. My bad.