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Thursday, July 20, 2006UDOT says its maintenance crews pick up over 20-thousand urine bottles a year from the state's roads. And that's not all they're cleaning. Nile Easton: "Right now we've been finding a lot of ziploc bags full of urine, feces, drug paraphernalia, used needles, blood." The Salt Lake Public Utilities office says they've been concerned about the waste for years because it's relatively close to streams that feed into Little Dell Reservoir. From there, water is treated to become drinking water. Jeff Snelling, SL Public Utilities Watershed Manager: "There's bacteria and stuff that can be introduced with those type of things being put in our watershed." The office says, so far they have seen no evidence of waste getting into the water, but that could change if the problem isn't dealt with. Jeff Snelling: "We would ask the public and the trucking community to do what they can to help discourage these practices." Maybe Utah needs to build some more rest stops. posted by Sydney on 7/20/2006 08:47:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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