Washington state sewage plant invites weddings
WOODINVILLE, Wash. - A sewage treatment plant near Seattle is advertising its availability as a wedding venue.
The Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Center says on Facebook it has a full catering kitchen, audio-video equipment, dance floor and ample parking.
The director of the Brightwater Environmental Education and Community Center, Susan Tallarico, tells KIRO that receptions would take place just steps away from where raw sewage is processed.
Yee-Haw! Our wedding was really the s***!
The King County plant was finished three years ago but has been available for rent for about seven months.It costs $2,000 to rent the center for eight hours. One couple has already booked the sewage plant for their nuptials.
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Coming Soon! Grant Munro...Wedding Planner!
I'm picturing a giant mural of a wedding cake covering the Turd Tank...
ReplyDeleteYes, but be sure everyone wears a hazmat suit, because most all the contamination that made the former Rayonier mill site a designated EPA Superfund Cleanup Site are still there! ( Another great investment by the City! 11 acres of liability!)
DeleteBut more seriously, the Brightwater facility is a good example of how a city can actually make a facility a world class destination.
I sure hope that you're being tongue in cheek about this place being a "world class destination." Then again, given the subject matter, maybe it's best not to have your tongue in anything...
DeleteHere's your ad campaign Chamber of Commerce..."Say I do, next to poo."
DeleteAnd waterslides for the kids! Wheee!
ReplyDeleteOh? Are we back to the concept of making a city attractive? That "planting trees" thing?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you build a sewage treatment plant with a dance floor and a full catering kitchen??? For that matter, why does a sewage treatment have a Facebook page???
ReplyDeleteI'm just worried that our City Council will hear about this and want to keep up with the Joneses...
DeleteIt is this thing called "education". The public creates waste, but knows little about what it takes to deal with the wastes the tax paying public is creating. By planning ahead, and building in "public involvement" into the facilities, people learn about these things. They have an "education center", there.
DeleteAnd, it shows foreward thinking and planning. By making the facilities attractive, by building in facilities for weddings, dances, etc, many more people get exposed to all that it takes to be "responsible" with the wastes created by our modern, consumerist lifestyle.
You know, in contrast to Port Ageles, where we build huge Turd Tanks to store our wastes long enough to dump some chemicals on them, and dump the whole mess out into the Strait. Out of sight, out of mind kinda thing, dontcha know.
Like in contrast to Port Angeles, where we used to literally push our wastes over the edge of the cliff, and now are looking for the State, or County, or pretty much anyone else to take responsibility for the wastes and the problems we create. Now, we put everything in trucks, and drive the stuff to Eastern Oregon.
We sure like to buy all this stuff, and have Facebook pages to show off all our new stuff, but, is that where it ends?
I think that a department or two in Port Angeles have Facebook pages, but I don't recall the waste treatment plant being included in there...I do wish our City Council had a Facebook page, to facilitate more feedback from the public - which, yes, I know they don't want. Still, I can dream...
DeleteI don't give a crap about Facebook and transparency and blah blah blah. I just want the city to stop spending my money so freely and so foolishly.
DeleteWhat, no hot tub?
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