Once park users get used to having access to quality and regularly serviced portable restrooms, they won’t give them up without a fight. Consider a recent story out of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where a penny-pinching city administrator and City Council suddenly decided to permanently remove 11 restrooms from nine well-used parks in the city.
The city’s community services director, Jeff Pippinger, calmly explained to the local WEAU 13 News that the city just could no longer afford the nearly $20,000 annual expenditure to pump the units. When I first saw this news report, I recall wondering how his casual attitude about












