But he also was concerned about how often floor drains got clogged and backed up into puddles in the processing rooms.
First Alistair Brownlee slumped to the floor, drained but elated, after defying the broiling midday sun and a chronic ankle injury to become the first triathlete to retain an Olympic title.
It was paid $2 million to lay new linoleum and hang new ceiling tiles in the hospital's ground floor, drain the flooded basement and fix the central air-conditioning.
"In our new lab, the floor drains actually work!" Still, if many Exploratorium employees were eagerly anticipating improvements at their new home, a $220 million retrofit of a 98-year-old pier that will nearly triple their exhibition space, not everyone was ready to let go so easily.
Floor drains remove surface fluids and provide a physical barrier between building drainage and the sewer.
"While NRC was telling me back then that there were no safety implications and everything was under control, in fact, floor drains inside the plant had backup and the water level was rising on safety related electrical circuitry for reactor cooling systems," Gunter said in an email.
Also, there is a floor drain in every bathroom.
He spat into a floor drain and took a second stab: "This is the Old World that has come to America.
Its perfunctory splotches and smears, on a yellowish ground, indicate the wide door, the fake showerheads, and the floor drain in the awful room.
The pathogen was found on a conveyor belt for carrying cantaloupes, a melon drying area and a floor drain, among other places.
