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Who has to clean the suds out of the roundabout fountain?
August 17th, 2009 at Mon, 17th, 2009 at 12:07 pm by justinefrederiksenThe suds were back this morning — for at least their second visit this summer — in the rock fountain the Port Orchard Rotary Club added to the Bethel Roundabout a few years ago.
They always make me wonder: who has to clean the soap out, and how exactly do they do it?
Well, according to Alan Rickett of Port Orchard’s Public Works Department, there isn’t much one can do to clean the soap.
“You just have to let it run its course,” Rickett said. “We would look silly trying to get suds out of the fountain.”
Rickett guessed that the suds have invaded the fountain about “a half-a-dozen times” since it was built, and that they usually subside in a day or two.
As to who might be adding the soap to the water, Rickett said, “We’re not pointing any fingers, but we have our suspicions that it starts on a barstool across the street.”
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