Results tagged “portapotties”

                    

It's becoming increasingly clear that the security breakdowns associated with certain ticketholder gates at the Swearing-In ceremony last Tuesday were a lot worse than anybody first realized, but if there's one thing that inaugural officials didn't underestimate, it was the number of port-a-potties the city would need. Thanks to the reported 7,500 portable toilets deployed all over the city for last week's festivities, we never once heard anyone complain that they had trouble finding a pot to piss in (of course, that might have something to do with the freezing temperatures outside helping people decide that holding it was worth it).

Last week, WTOP was guesstimating that as many as 2,000 to 3,000 port-a-potties were being ordered to place around the city for Inauguration Day, but today the Post gets the scoop on the actual number: 5,000! Yes, 5,000 portable toilets will be installed along the parade route and around the National Mall, more than double the 2,200 provided in 2005. We'll say one good thing about the likelihood that it's going to be a cold day in Washington on January 20 -- at least the smell of all that human waste has a good chance of being tamped down by freezing temperatures.

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.