Katie Shimer asks the important question WHERE DOES MY POOP GO?. It’s a terrible, horrible story, but I’ll let her tell her version of it anyway.

I told you it was a terrible, horrible story, but never fear. Oregon DEQ and the city of Portland are sort of coming, or have been coming, to the rescue with the help of the feds. Fortunately, Jack has the really important updates on this series of much needed improvements to the quality of life in Portland, Oregon.

The City of Portland is fighting tooth and nail not to have to install a $60 million treatment system on its Bull Run drinking water, to filter out a parasite as required by federal law. But it’s spending $1.3 billion (not a typo), so far, to re-do its sewer system to clean up the Portland Harbor stretch of the Willamette River, which no sensible person will even get near for much of the year, much less ever drink out of.

I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation for all this. But I’m just saying. Any sensible person looking at the big picture has got to marvel at this paradox.

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