Warner Field bathrooms

[Jose Dejesus]

The bathrooms @ Warner Field were absolutely disgusting. I have been going to Bluegrass for several years and this was by far the worst that I have EVER seen the bathrooms.

What exactly was that green ooze in front of them?

Feces and Urine.....

[statelax]

Was in Warner Field As well.  Weekend was fantastic as always, music on down the line BUT Mr Jose has one hell of a point (PBG Folks please note this)

The first 3 toilets all FOUR days were leaking onto the dirt, you could see in the mornings the puddles of 'clean' blue sanitizer and by the end of the festi I think one or two others were as well.  Whatever company handles the Port o Johns should be embarrised by the half a$$'ed job the crews did not noticing this and doining something about it (I work for a General Contractor, swapping a couple of those puppies out is not that tough, campers on the field and all)

  The fact it was leaking infront of one of the main entrances into Warner made it even worse, like I said Great all around.....but keep an eye on the Honey Buckets

 

[Jose Dejesus]

It was my only complaint to an otherwise GREAT festival. Thanks PBG, but please take care of the deplorable conditions @ the Warner Field bathrooms!

[FreebornMan]

I agree with said point.  Without getting too graphic, let's just say that the actual toilet seats were a bit disgusting as well. 

It should be noted that we are talking about the port-o-potties, not the actual building by Warner.

[Jose Dejesus]

I agree with said point.  Without getting too graphic, let's just say that the actual toilet seats were a bit disgusting as well. 

It should be noted that we are talking about the port-o-potties, not the actual building by Warner.

The real flush toilets in the Town of Telluride building, adjacent to Warner Field, were kept up fairly well and I am convinced that it had little to do with PBG and more to do with the Town of Telluride.

[semicharmed314]

I have to say that the women's bathrooms were always just fine, Warner and Town Park alike. The Port-a-Pots got knarly, especially in the morning, but they will do that. PB did a great job on the bathrooms, once again. Maybe it's the dudes making the bathrooms gross! The ladies bathrooms were always an oasis of clean, with left-over shampoo and soap in case you forgot yours!

[bouzouki]

We noticed the "ooze" and steered clear, but we wondered how it was unnoticed by the port-a-john crew.  I realize that there is an economic incentive to do some things cheaply, but when a health hazard is observable, perhaps we should have been more vocal, not that I knew who to tell.  The town bathrooms were not leaking and the shower and sinks were fine, but the entrance to Warner had a muddy area.  One of the urinals was stopped up, and I wasn't about to hunt for the plug.  It makes me wonder where those will show up at some construction site, and contaminate the area, creating a superfund site.

[Jose Dejesus]

I hope that enough people that were effected by this will fill out their survey or let their voice be heard to PBG. Warner Field deserves more and better maintained bathrooms!

Warner Field = Third World Country?   

[statelax]

And I should add (Besides my crappy spelling)

I thought the rest of the port-o-johns were fine (The ones in the festival were in great shape all weekend), Bathrooms in/around town park were in pretty good shape as well.

  My only complaint is the one's in Warner because they seemed to get much more use this year from Warner/TP people coming in and out of the festi since we did not have to go out the main exits.  While I can understand some guy getting paid peanuts to just clean hundreds of Honey Buckets wanting to just push thru and get cleaned/done, the company handling the toilets (It is turn key, you pay for them to deliver/unload/maintain/haul off said toilets) should have noticed this and done something about it because letting it stay like that for 5 days is nothing short of laziness on their part

Can;t stress enough, only complaint I had, Weekend was amazing as always (and it's not like this ruined anything) but those 3 a.m. stumbles into a close Honey Bucket were a little more wild then they needed to be!  I don;t put this on the Planet Bluegrass folks BUT I do hope they pass this info along to the company they hired because I can pass along names of other companies my firm has worked with (In the mountains) who would have caught and handled this!


 

 Listening to: My idiot co-workers, wishing I was back in T-ride

[Bevin]

I noticed the leaky Warner Field porta-johns as well.  Ugh.  But...

I also noticed that there were 2 extra porta-johns at the waterfall beside Steamboat Crossroads camp and 2 extra at the bridge to the Primitive area.  It seemed like there were more porta-johns than normal in Town Park and those extras were much  appreciated. 

Overall I think that United Waste did a great job, but we need porta-johns that don't leak goo all over the place. 

[Jose Dejesus]

Eight Johns to cover Warner Field is not enough.

I am glad to hear that the Steamboat guys got two Johns and the 500 (total guess?) or so people @ Warner Field shared eight Johns that were cleaned two maybe three times.

It also looked like the two parking attendants @ Carhenge were well taken care with their own Johns.

To sugarcoat it and say that the Warner Field Johns were anything less than disgusting would be idiotic. 

[Capt. Telluride]

To add onto this,  I sincerly hope that PBG THOROUGHLY cleaned all that up. It is a field where kids play ball and that would be a black spot on an otherwise sutainable and eco-friendly fest.

[wyeknot108]

It also looked like the two parking attendants @ Carhenge were well taken care with their own Johns.

I've gladly used those when parking my car.  I don't think well-placed public facilities really augments the actual problem being described in Warner Field.   

Did anyone seek out a PB staffer and communicate the problem?  Maybe a call from PB to porto-management could have been a first step to an actual festival-time solution.  Leaking porto's is a public health safety hazard that likely would have been had to have been addressed for legal reasons.

The rink bathrooms provided some much-appreciated additional rest-space (in a cool, quiet environment taboot) when it was open, which was usually more than the 7am-10am sign on the door.

Except for the coin-ops breaking for a day on the men's main showers, I thought all facilities were on par --- but I did not encounter the WF problem.  I did have friends use them and no one mentioned it.

[mark2010]

Jesus, I think some of you people live too much of a closet spoilt lifestyle, its a festival you know not some preppy graduation ceremony. Sorry no-one was there to wipe your ass for you Jose.

The toilets at Warner did get a little tricky at times but there was always access to a clean one in the shower block which I found clean everytime I went in. Also there were toilets each morning at the ice rink a mere 30 seconds away.

I thought the facilities overall were very good and pretty clean, there are always exceptions but this thread is a little over reaction. Obviously youve never attended an outdoor event in Europe or the UK, where you do really take you life in your hands when you go to the bathroom.

The arena toilets I thought were very very good and cleaned on a regular basis, probably the best inside the gate toilets Ive experienced.

Warner was excellant, quite clean camping, thanks to all who make it that way.

The only exception was wednesday night with an asshole in the queue - you know who you are - next time you may find someone sticks one on you. 



 Listening to: People Just Aint No Good - Nick Cave

[Jose Dejesus]

Mark, I make no apologies and I refuse to retract my comments.
THIS is not the "UK or Europe"!

Why settle for subpar conditions? In fact there was borderline health infractions going on there. On several occasions I watched people walk through the mess in front of the Johns - not cool.

I had a wonderful week and will continue to go to the bluegrass festival, but why deal with gross conditions?