Watch your step for human poop in Big Cottonwood Canyon- a fecal time bomb

Mayor Jackie Biskupski, please remember how great Salt Lake City is,  how it loves the creeks, and  kindly end this environmental injustice.  Please ask SLC Public Utilities to  1) stop putting Utah Lake water in Big Cottonwood Creek and Little Cottonwood Creek,  2) end drying up of the creeks for extra surplus water money, and 3) add 50 toilets to Big Cottonwood Canyon and 25 to Little Cottonwood Canyon. 

Chlorinated poop in tap water is all the pleasure of drinking poop without the risk of infection.

Dangerous water infected with Anatoxin-a, also known as Very Fast Death Factor (VRDF), and other cynaotoxins should not be put in Salt Lake County eastside creeks then run through eastside backyards. 

Creeks are living entities with basic rights.   Natural creeks are not open ditches, sewers, and toilets.  It's un-natural, un-friendly, and un-healthy  for Big Cottonwood Creek to look and smell like the pictures in the photo gallery.  801-535-7704 mayor@slcgov.com 

At the front door, Salt Lake City residents are water shamed into paying high water conservation rates with tall tales of water shortages while SLC Inc. sells billions of gallons of "surplus" water directly and indirectly for $25 million in Weber County, Park City, Heber Valley, Millcreek, Cottonwood Heights, and 4 ski resorts out the back door.  Part of the 'surplus' water game dries up Big Cottonwood Creek to make more "surplus water" money.  There are better policies.

Salt Lake City, a truly great city,  grabbed water for 2 million people, but wall to wall cities and the CUP ended their water empire dreams.  SLC's population is 200,000 or 1/10th of their water empire dream creating a huge water hoarding problem.  Water hoarding is the justification for Salt Lake City to control the canyons "to protect the watershed."  "We own all the water.  We are protecting our water."

On average 57% of Big Cottonwood Creek water never enters the treatment plant.  Of the 43% that is treated, 75% of that is for lawn water.  About 99.8% of Big Cottonwood Creek water is never drunk from the tap.  So what's the hyper watershed protection story for? Money and power to devalue land to add to SLC's 31,000 acre canyon (50 square miles) land hoard. It appears no toilets have been installed on SLC's 31,000 (50 square miles).

A good looking vaulted toilet installed is about $40,000.  It's the canyon politics that has crapped up our canyons. Every 3 years, Salt Lake City spends $1 Billion from city budgets or $2.25 billion if the SLC Enterprise Businesses are included, yet new canyon toilets.  

The politics is that bikers especially want to bike back into a wilderness experience, commune with nature, then commute home in the same day so they are against toilets.  A toilet means a road for the septic tank truck to come and empty it.  Bikers don't want any roads so no toilets.  Better to crap up or let the canyon burn down than to have a toilet or fire hydrant needing a road.  It's selfish, short sighted and environmentally illogical. 

SLC Public Utilities gives $150,000 to the County Sheriff Dept, sometimes $37,000 to the Forest Service, and tens of thousands to the Town of Alta for extra watershed patrols instead of 4 new toilets a year.  There is plenty of money.  It should and could be spent more effectively. 

SLC Public Utilities also has a $1 million armed watershed police force unlike the other 566 of 567 Utah's Public Water Providers providing safe drinking water with no armed watershed police.

If that $1 million were re-purposed, SLC could put 25 new toilets in the Wasatch a year.  SLC won't. The watershed police force is not about water quality because 99.8% of Utah's Public Water Providers provide safe drinking water without an armed watershed police. It's folks inserting their personal likes and dislikes into the city budgets for their own purposes instead of better public purposes like toilets, canyon drinking water, and fire hydrants.  

Dead fish from toxic algae poisoning enter the food chain poisoning birds and other wildlife.


"Algal toxins poison 60,000 people around the world every year."

Never has Big Cottonwood Creek ever had a toxic algal bloom infection except for the fact of Salt Lake City drying up the creek and putting dirty Utah Lake water into a clean creek.