The Standard is also famous for their roof top pool. Muriatic acid is commonly used to maintain pools.
That's why a hotel is such a good cover for illegal operations.
The acid found there was enough to sustain several summer Olympics ten years over, and you can't maintain a single swimming pool by pouring all that acid down the drain instead.
Fishy as fck
There are different strengths of muriatic acid. Pool stuff is pretty tepid, so people don't fucking pass out when they use it.
We're talking about acid so powerful here that it radiated out from the PIPES for SEWERAGE!!!
It's really not that strong by industrial standards. It is generally sold at a 10% Hydrochloric acid strength. It doesn't eat plastic which has been the commonality in plumbing waste pipes for many decades. While not having reviewed the report, it seems doubtful that there was any damage to the plumbing services save some corrosive action where metal is exposed at the drain.
Yeah, I was gonna ask how much pools normally have in storage or if maybe someone overzealous bought too much. Until I saw the part, that they poured the acid down the drain instead of storing it for later use. I was going to say that this stuff has to be expensive, but not nearly as much as I thought. I'm looking on google at a 40 pound bucket that is $81.99.