{"id":35806,"date":"2022-01-21T06:58:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=35806"},"modified":"2022-01-21T06:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:58:37","slug":"pipe-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=35806","title":{"rendered":"Pipe Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Looking into the endless gray this week, all I wanted was color. The rain hammered on my roof during the nights, with leaf-stuffed gutters overflowing, water gushing by my window. Of course! Drainpipes! The solution to filling my eyes with color and pattern and my brain with delightful memories of prior travels. Thus today’s barrage of photographs, since pipes held my interest for years on end, always with faint plans to use them eventually for abstract montages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course you don’t get away today with just admiring rusting pipes. Too pressing the problem – in Portland and elsewhere – of health issues associated with lead in the water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nation, for the most part, knows about Flint, MI and the water troubles they experienced. The crisis there has become synonymous with environmental disaster. Turns out, Portland is worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the late 1990s, samples have shown Portland exceeding the federal safety threshold for lead 11 times<\/a>. In 2017, after Portland had once again surpassed that threshold, OHA required the water bureau to build a corrosion control treatment facility, according to Salis\u2019 letter. Water from the Bull Run watershed is naturally corrosive<\/a>, which can cause lead from copper plumbing and fixtures to leech into people\u2019s homes. By building a facility to make Portland\u2019s water less corrosive, the bureau expects to reduce the amount of lead dissolving from old plumbing into stagnant water. The facility is slated<\/a> to be completed by April.<\/em> (Ref<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the water bureau’s January 2022 response after decades of complaints:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the actions the Water Bureau is taking include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n