Book Water

aliceindisguse · Post by **aliceindisguse** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:54 am

This is a phenomenon I will never understand.
As your leaving the dock at book you do the little saftey speil (hands,arm,feet legs inside the boat at all times), yet people still end up with their hand in the water. My favorite phrase has become "Mantengan sus manos dentro del barco" cause it scares the crap out of people when this blonde haired blue eyed white chick who won't shut up about the damn houses starts talking in spanish.

Anyways to my story, A lady a few days ago gets on my boat, she is sooooo overheated and sweating profusely. We're going along and as we make our way past the patchwork quilt. She does the first most disgusting thing, she takes a cloth baby diper and dips it in the water and starts dabbing herself with it. Now I've already told her to keep her hands inside 3 times now and so I tell her please not to do that because the water is not clean. Then what does she do.... She sicks her hand in and pulls it out with her hand cupped...brings it to her lips and drinks it. :shock: I wanted to throw up right then and there. I could not believe that she did it, let alone survived it. I mean that water is gross first off it hasn't been cleaned in lord knows how long, it's chlorinated, there are fish and crawdads in it, not to mention the amount of duck and crow feces. YUCK even imagining it now makes me gag.

This is a favorite of mine cause the kid actually listens. A small child sticks their hands in the water. I tell her not to do that it's green for a reason. She asks why. I simply tell her it's cause it's icky. For the rest of the trip she keeps her hand in the air trying not to touch anything. The trip ends she asks me should she wash her hand. all I say is probably and she bolts to the bathroom( I mean it she was fast) she came back later and thanked me for telling her it was icky.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:58 am

how deep is that water, say if i were to put on a bio suit, and hop in how far would a go (i'm thinking waste deep), and how far would my feet sink into the muck at the bottom, if at all?

aliceindisguse · Post by **aliceindisguse** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:01 am

the waters anywhere from 5 to 12 feet deep depending on where you are. but the amount of sludge on the bottom is disgusting. When moving the switch to move boats from main to spur it kicks up sludge and.... well it just isn't pretty

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:52 am

Some once told me that Book, the old Motor Boat water ways and RoA were all on the same network. Now I don't dare touch RoA its gross and no matter how refreshing a trip into the River might sound...-shudders at the thought- Come one do you drink River water before its been treated? Not me! Well then guest never listen. If we told them that Book's water was arrowhead provided they'd probably believe us.

CujoSR · Post by **CujoSR** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:24 am

I doubt they clorinate the water all to much if there are fish alive in there.

aliceindisguse · Post by **aliceindisguse** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:35 am

Actrually once they put too much chlorine in the water and they had dead fish popping up everywhere. Book had to go 101 for it. It was pretty disgusting.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:39 pm

CujoSR wrote:I doubt they clorinate the water all to much if there are fish alive in there.

My dad has a koi pond in the backyard. There is a SLIGHT amount of chlorine to help keep the algae population down.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:50 pm

well the main reason the koi stay alive is that they're related to the common goldfish, which everyone knows are much to stupid to actually die in waters that should not be inhabitable to them, thus making them nearly indestrucable.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:00 pm

Except Koi ate MUCHO expensive. My dad loses koi not to the water being wrong, but to Racoons and Great Blue Herons...

Zazu · Post by **Zazu** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:04 pm

Stduck wrote:Some once told me that Book, the old Motor Boat water ways and RoA were all on the same network.

It's true. The "dark water" system at Disneyland is all connected in a giant loop. It starts at Motorboat and Storybook, then both empty into the castle moat. Then it runs into Jungle Cruise, then Rivers of America. Pumps near the indian village sent it back to Motorboat and Storybook. Pumps in Cascade Peak supplied it's waterfalls and also the Beaver Valley area, both draining back into the RoA.

The term "dark water" is in contrast to the "clear water" system that is Sub Lagoon. I believe that Matterhorn, Small World, Pirates, and ... what do they call it now, Triton's Garden? ... are independent systems.

Lessons learned from this: at WDW, all water systems are independent Even the Castle Moat and Jungle Cruise, even though their docks are side by side, have a concrete wall to separate their waters so that either can be drained independent of the other.

Full details on the Disneyland system were published in The "E" Ticket in Spring 1994 ( No. 18 ).