Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon

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Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon
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or the guy that pissed in the holding reservoir in Portland. The utility dumped all (I forget the exact number) 7 million gallons or so but his fine was in the thousands of dollars and not what the retail cost of that amount of water would be.

Wait what? Like an outdoor reservoir/lake like thing or something else?

correct. The one I am thinking about but can't find pre-coffee happened in the past couple of years but I found this one from ~10 years ago (38 Million gallons): https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/17/304128931/one-mans-pee-pushes-portland-to-flush-38m-gallons-of-water

That just seems like a bad call to me in ways ... Maybe this is more normal than I think, but ... what if fish get in there, ducks, other animals, some runoff, etc?

Part of that is mitigated by the size I imagine but that should also apply to human urine... I would think anyways?