For 300 million dollars...

[Dinh AaronMk]

... you get an extra hour in the ball lake. abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-reservoi..

Hider

[mdk]

Who wants to take bets -- how long before at least half of those little shits wind up in the ocean, strangling whales or whatever

[Hank]

Who wants to take bets -- how long before at least half of those little shits wind up in the ocean, strangling whales or whatever

@mdk

Probably never. They used the same 'technology' in the Ivanhoe reservoir back in 2008 and those haven't ended up anywhere else either.

[Gandalf]

Who wants to take bets -- how long before at least half of those little shits wind up in the ocean, strangling whales or whatever

@mdk

Or perhaps how long before that black plastic melts in the sun and poisons the water supply. Probably not though. They must have made them with a heat resistant polymer.

[Nilesapa]

These black balls are saving people from getting cancer from the bromate.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Who wants to take bets -- how long before at least half of those little shits wind up in the ocean, strangling whales or whatever

@mdk

I'm not going to claim to be a reservoir expert, but I don't think aquifers like the ones LA relies on - and has for a long-ass time - flow out unless someone wants them too. So it's not like these balls are going to be drifting out to sea on some idyllic stream that formed under everyone's nose at the back of the pool. And any outflows will probably be gated to keep large or small solid objects from going where they're not needed, especially if that means it's going into the drinking supply where it could fuck up the pumps.

[mdk]

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I'm not going to claim to be a reservoir expert, but I don't think aquifers like the ones LA relies on - and has for a long-ass time - flow out unless someone wants them too. So it's not like these balls are going to be drifting out to sea on some idyllic stream that formed under everyone's nose at the back of the pool. And any outflows will probably be gated to keep large or small solid objects from going where they're not needed, especially if that means it's going into the drinking supply where it could fuck up the pumps.

@Dinh AaronMk

Freak storm or something. I don't know, I'm not a scientist. I just see a bunch of folks deliberately littering to save the water and I figure it's gotta go wrong sooner or later.