A Florida school has learned a hard lesson about green technology and green math.
The plan was to save water, and the planet, by installing waterless urinals in the boys washrooms. Each green urinal would save the school $100 per year in water utility bills.
But things went wrong. Horribly wrong:
Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure the stench of rancid waste after a plan to bring ‘green’ waterless urinals into bathrooms backfired. School officials at Spanish River High School thought they had found an environmentally-friendly, cost-saving solution for their bathrooms when they installed Falcon Waterfree urinals in their boys bathrooms.
But with no water moving through the school’s copper pipes to flush the urine into the sewer system, the waste produced noxious gases that ate through the metal, leaving leaky pipes that allowed urine to drip into walls and flow onto floors.
‘It was pretty disgusting,’ school board chairman Frank Barbieri told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. ‘The girls had to step over a river of urine. I could smell it as soon as I walked into the hallway.’
That’s what you call a busted flush. The cost of fixing the damage is $500,000 and the school will install 200 traditional, water-efficient urinals instead.
It’s not easy being green.
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Obviously these people let greenery go to their heads.
(Sailor’s pun, for you landlubbers.)
If I were a child in the present day in that particular school I would most certainly be peeing in the principal’s office daily.
Man, ya gotta love government math sometimes.
Like as not, the copper pipes were mandated by the Zoning and Building Regulations of the various governmental authorities. Idiots!
The devastating effects of uric acid on copper… remarkable!
I hope the kids didn’t find “green-pee soup” on the lunch menu, though remembering my school lunches, it might have improved the flavour, or at least provided some.
Gives a whole new meaning to “slashing costs”! (“Having a slash” is UK slang for urinating).
Double stupid . . copper pipes are supposed to be used for water supply, never for waste water.
Whoever built that school screwed up the plumbing from the get-go.
Indeed.
Schools don’t do well with green tech initiatives. In the UK, kids were dodging dead birds, not rivers of pee.
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As much as I love seeing Eco-tards hoist on their own petard, it is not they who are paying for their stupidity, it is the students–although this should be a wonderful “teaching moment.”
The administrators who approved this folly should be force to do the clean up, and then they should be fired.
Boca Raton, eh? Wonder when one of the enterprising parents will sue for, oh I don’t know, health reasons, psychological damage, even property damage–shoes are expensive, right?
‘Green’ was never about the planet or environment. It’s about the color of money.