From the Department of Unintended Consequences
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.
'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.'
It will only cost the school district $500,000 to get school back into shape. Being on the cutting edge of the environmentally-friendly, sustainable, green revolution can be costly but what the hell it's only the taxpayers' money. The Falcon Waterfree urinal uses a disposable cartridge to trap the odor. The urine is then supposed to flow by itself into the sewer. Maybe with light use or proper plumbing the water free urinal would work. In this case the school had copper drain pipes and boys' urine has acid. Full strength, without being diluted with flush water it was so acidic that it ate through the drain pipe and then drained through the walls into the hallway.
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