Volunteers needed to flush toilets at Cajundome

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwlkh122005toilets.1fcdde9.html

About 70 volunteers are needed to participate in the "Great Cajundome Flushoff" set for 6 p.m. on Dec. 27.

he Cajundome and Convention Center housed as many as 17,000 evacuees of hurricanes Katrina and Rita for 58 days ending Oct. 26. That many people in the facility 24 hours a day took a toll on the arena's plumbing system. "We don't know what ended up in the (sewer) system," Cajundome Director Greg Davis said. But, operations manager Phil Ashurst said they have found items in the pipes like pieces of brick wrapped in a towel, a T-shirt and diapers.

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he Federal Emergency Management Agency denied a request to inspect the sewer system with a camera, Davis said. So, to test the plumbing before hosting an event in January, a minimum of 70 volunteers are needed to spend 15 to 20 minutes flushing toilet paper down 220 or so toilets and testing urinals.

"We can't afford to find out we have a problem at a sold-out concert," Davis said.

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a brick, whether wrapped or unwrapped, will not fit down a toilet or urinal. therefore, it had to placed directly into the pipe, for instaance where a toilet was broken from the floor and the sewer pipe was exposed.

my guess is that as the raw sewage and stormwater was backing up into the cajundome during the storm, someone took a heavy object (brick), wrapped it with something (towel) that would help seal the backflowing sewage, and jammed it into the pipe.

kinda takes the vandalism aspect out of the story, doesnt it?

"Funkybutt" would post this story.

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A warped sense of humor that's why!!

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I think it's funny too...I must be warped as well.

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