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Oooh: In order to appease the downtown Brooklyn community, Bruce Ratner and the Nets arena development team are proposing to use waterless urinals in order to reduce the water and sewage outflow from the proposed arena. Yes, waterless urinals - crazy stuff! Ratner's group may also build holding tanks for days when the sewage system is overwhelmed (we know there must be buildings that have these, but, still, ew when we think about it), even though the city says the current sewer system can handle extra from an arena, but these ideas are not acceptable to the Friends and Resident of Greater Gowanus, which says, "The current infrastructure lets sewage into the canal even under dry conditions. Even before Ratner's project was on the table this has been an issue down here." Ew, and is this why there was a seal in the water? [For some other problems with coverage of the Nets arena development, check out this Curbed summary.]
Anyway, Gothamist was curious about the waterless urinal, so we checked out one maker of such devices, which has a great animated diagram of how it works. The company, Waterless, says that waterless urinals have been installed at Liberty Island - has anyone used one? Are they effective and non-smelly? And while we're on this train of thought, we must say Toto toilets, with the warmed seats, are amazing.
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I was at the Miami Beach Convention Center last month and used the waterless urinals. They have retrofitted most of the Men's rooms there (apparently) as they even had some documents posted about it.
No odor, no smell, and rather efficient. The only wierd thing is not flushing or hearing the roar of the flushometers during a break in the conference...
I would hope that these get installed everywhere as they will save billions to trillions of gallons of water every year.
Ironically, one of the anti-Government spending groups questions U.S. taxpayer monies funding greater research and usage of these just about a week ago; for the environment, the lower costs (we do have to pay for the water that gets to every urinal) and the fact that you don't have to worry about as much maintenance, these are well spent dollars...
Welcome back, Jen! I'm a little embarrassed to ask this...but how do you prounounce "Oooh"? Is it like a long "oh" or a long "oo" (like "ew")? Or????
The little voice inside my head would like to know!
Here is an idea:
Keep the Nets in the swamps of New Jeresy where flushing toilets isn't an issue instead of moving them to a viable community where they will disrupt things.
Another option...toilets that have the ability to do a half flush. A science center in Burlington, Vt. introduced them as part of it's eco-friendly design. When you're finished with your business you have a choice of two buttons to push: one is for the light stuff and uses half the amt. of water regularly used. The other uses the normal amt. of water for your bigger drop-offs. :) g
I used to work at IBM in North Carolina, and the entire campus was equipped with waterless urinals. They don't smell like urine (the oil traps it), but they do smell different. It's an odd experience.
Hollywood Center Studios in Los Angeles has had them for about 2 years now. Very efficient, no mess.
"viable community" ???? downtown brooklyn???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Toby you should take you head out of your ass. The place has been a dump for the last 50 years.
Hey, Toby's Ass... when was the last time you were there? And was it winter or spring of '56 that it turned into a dump? Just wonderin'...
Let me think... what was the last time I was there.... hmm....that would be TODAY around 1:30PM.
Does that answer your "wonderin'"???? Good. Now quit wonderin'
i had one of those half flush toilets when i was growing up. it seemed to work pretty well.
Hmm, destruction of a community = waterless toilets.
Sounds like Brooklyn won out on this one!
Ratner should stick his head down a toilet, and keep it there.
Destruction of WHAT community??? Are you just ranting because some wealthy developer is building something new? Last time I was there (TODAY) there was nothing but rundown buildings and a useless railyard. Why don't you wash you eyes in the toilet and look around again?!?!
Toby's Ass. Uh, Toby, open your eyes. there are hundreds of residents who live in the supposed non-community you are talking about. wake up. this is the largest single-sourced development EVER proposed in NYC and all you can write is this crap? give me a break.
rundown buildings that Ratner has paid MILLIONS for.
Oh, won't anyone tell me how "Oooh" is supposed to sound?