...We get the fact that Beervana prides (click here) itself on its water supply. The water bureau has a Facebook page, a YouTube presence and a Flickr site. You can follow it on Twitter (@portlandwater). It even has a bumper sticker: “I only drink tap water.”...
April 17, 2014
By Mark Berman
...As a result, (click here) the bureau closed the reservoir (which can hold 50 million gallons of water) to test the water for any contamination. While test samples of the water came back clean Thursday, the bureau will still dump 38 million gallons of drinking water.
“Our customers have an expectation that their water is not deliberately contaminated,” David Shaff, administrator of the bureau, said in a statement. “We have the ability to meet that expectation while minimizing public health concerns.”
Portland’s water system delivers drinking water to about 935,000 people. There are five uncovered drinking water reservoirs in Portland, three of them at Mount Tabor Park. This particular reservoir is going to be disconnected at the end of 2015 due to an Environmental Protection Agency rule saying that drinking water had to be kept in covered reservoirs. All of Portland’s uncovered reservoirs will be discontinued by the end of 2020....
