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Comments (37)
Water Bureau Waste
Randy's corp friends make haste
Projects siphon cash
Posted by LucsAdvo | September 30, 2011 7:59 AM
Bread and circuses
It's okay because we have
bread and circuses
Posted by SeymourGlass | September 30, 2011 8:01 AM
Pipe takes water where
Money and power flourish:
Saltzman's psychosis.
Posted by tommyspoon | September 30, 2011 8:10 AM
Dreams of clean river
No, water bill made me faint
And I still must pay
Posted by Ryan | September 30, 2011 8:14 AM
God this pisses you off - They don't have money for road/bridge repairs, yet we have people like the ex-blogmistress for PWB and poetry contests. I'd take this as symptomatic of too many non-productive types looking for work to appear busy.
Posted by Steve | September 30, 2011 8:17 AM
What's even more infuriating is that poo poo still goes into the River when there is a heavy rain. And you're paying for it with the highest sewer rates in the US!
Posted by Dave A. | September 30, 2011 8:23 AM
Pipe runs away with
Our retirement savings
The future looks damp
Posted by EB | September 30, 2011 8:35 AM
Two entries per household. How generous!
A billion is big
But the pipe is bigger still
Now pay forever
Posted by EB | September 30, 2011 8:40 AM
I'd like to see the city, or really any public organization, publish the complete cost of each newsletter or flier in the small print on the bottom.
Not against these groups reaching out to let us know what is going on, but I think folks might start scaling back on the flourishes if they had to include the price of the color, graphic designers, glossy paper, PR people, etc.
Posted by other steve | September 30, 2011 8:53 AM
The giant poop shoots
Wasted away the money
Be still objections
Posted by Portland Native | September 30, 2011 9:11 AM
I'm sure you can request the cost documents via a small fee..... like $10,000! Ha ha ha ha.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | September 30, 2011 10:03 AM
Celebrate Portland!
Of your money and waste,
we will clean you out.
Posted by Clayman | September 30, 2011 10:06 AM
oops, I forgot "all" in the second line
Posted by clayman | September 30, 2011 10:08 AM
River is renewed
Sewer contractors got rich
Everyone else screwed
Posted by Ickabod | September 30, 2011 10:11 AM
Mellow the yellow
And brown stays around, until
Wallet green renews
Posted by PanchoPDX | September 30, 2011 10:48 AM
Big-pipe Saltzman has fallen behind, though, as his mailing is only printed on 70% post consumer waste. It is, however, elemental chlorine-free, so you know he's trying (the slop-bucket mailing is much larger, printed on 100% post consumer waste and produced with 100% certified renewable energy).
Did you know that the big pipe projects have each been awarded an award? Really! Trenchless Technology Magazine's named part of the east side pipe New Installation Project of the Year! And Tunnel Business Magazine named the west side pipe one of the decade's top tunnel projects. Folks, these are the kinds of things that do your mother proud.
But there's more to come: now that the tunnel projects are winding down, they'll be able to devote more ratepayer resources to green streets and eco-roofs. Portland has more than 950 green street facilities, and the number continues to grow every year. But wait - there's more! The city offers incentives to property "owners" to build eco-roofs.
Because they care - and you pay.
Posted by Max | September 30, 2011 10:54 AM
I've always been curious whether the longest underground sewage storage tank in the world crosses any known fault lines and how it's going to hold up in the event of even a minor earthquake?
Will Portland be famous for having the biggest sewage spill in history?
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | September 30, 2011 11:00 AM
Off the sewer grid
Rain barrel bath, backyard pee
Poop in food-scrap pail
Posted by PanchoPDX | September 30, 2011 11:11 AM
City of Portland
Sticking it to you again
Where the sun don't shine
Posted by The Original Bob | September 30, 2011 11:19 AM
Warning
The Bureau of Environmental Services is once again warning Portlanders no swimming and to avoid any recreational activity in the Willamette River where water could be swallowed within 48 hours after it rains.
Posted by Tony Columbo | September 30, 2011 11:21 AM
Time to have a Haiku poetry SLAM down at City Hall all day, all night camp out and groove on the rivers' toxi vapors offered by
personHOOD corporations.
Posted by sleuthjean | September 30, 2011 11:21 AM
Still a Superfund
The River is no cleaner
But my wallet is
Posted by LessLeft | September 30, 2011 11:45 AM
A slough of cash flows
Into the ocean of greed
While simple folks bleed
Posted by LucsAdvo | September 30, 2011 12:19 PM
Cry baby cry
Between the lines
One world order
Captured debt
Posted by class clown | September 30, 2011 12:20 PM
Mr. Grumpy,
If a fault cracks open after an earthquake, perhaps the retained sewage will all drain into some sinkhole well below the earths crust. In a few million years, all that organic material may turn into a new petroleum reserve that defers the peak oil concerns.
Posted by Mike (one of the many) | September 30, 2011 1:10 PM
I'm more concerned about the Willamette and the Columbia, all the way to the Pacific.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | September 30, 2011 1:34 PM
Crying Willamette River billions
the victims bottom end taxed up
as filth pours in upstream laughing
Posted by Mojo | September 30, 2011 4:22 PM
Mike, if the fault swallows City Hall the oil that eventually develops would be that stinky sulfurous kind that eats holes in refineries and catalytic converters alike.
Instead of Athabasca Shale oil they would call it Portlandia Shill oil.
Posted by Old Zeb | September 30, 2011 5:41 PM
I personally want to go back to the good ol' days when we dumped raw sewage into the Willamette ALL the time! That's when Portland was PORTLAND! Bring it back!
Posted by Gordon | September 30, 2011 9:16 PM
an epic fail
sewage should go through town
shipped by light rail
Posted by Bill McDonald | October 1, 2011 1:12 AM
Bojack's army writes
While Kiddie Hall tries to fight
All fiscal prudence
Posted by LucsAdvo | October 1, 2011 6:20 AM
Upriver LOIS
contends for Big Pipe $tatus
Flooding us with debt
Posted by Nolo | October 1, 2011 7:00 AM
dollar will be flushed
world reserve currency?
not much longer now
Posted by Bill McDonald | October 1, 2011 8:34 AM
Debt swamp is the game
Council excuses are lame
not for need, but greed!
Posted by clinamen | October 1, 2011 1:56 PM
The hell with haiku!
This is highkooky!
The zinger here is greed!
They're getting off their feed!
(They should be smoking weed!)
Computer sez: "No available translation for highkooky"
There is now!
Posted by Starbuck | October 1, 2011 2:57 PM
"Excess" sewer cash?
Great - let's build bike lanes instead!
It's not my money.
Posted by jmh | October 1, 2011 7:04 PM
Color of money
is not always just green
Hocus pocus scene
Posted by LucsAdvo | October 2, 2011 6:20 AM