Posted on 02/10/2005 10:45:08 AM PST by TexKat
New York -WABC, Feb. 10, 2005) — A boil water advisory has gone out to 17 area towns this morning. All are serviced by the same water treatment tank where the body of a missing New Jersey woman was found last night. Eyewitness News reporter Ken Rosato is at the scene in Totowa with more.
The medical examiner arrived at the Passaic Valley water treatment plant last night. It was clear, the news would be grim. They had found the body of a woman missing for several days.
The discovery led officials to declare a boil water advisory for several communities served by the water plant. They include: Clifton, Elmwood Park, Fairlawn, Garfield, Haledon, Harrison, Hawthorne, Lodi, North Arlington, North Haledon, Nutley, Passaic, Paterson, Prospect Park, Totowa, Wallington, West Paterson, and First Republic Corporation.
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To be safe, there was no school today for thousands of students in Elmwood Park. School officials were concerned they didn't have enough bottled water for students since the tap was made off limits for students.
Chuck Keenan, Elmwood Park Board Of Education: "It's a health issue that's to be safe and cancel school."
Forty three-year-old Geetha Angara was found at the bottom of a 35 foot deep tank. Prosecutors are investigating her death as a homicide, mainly because a protective grate over the tank makes it appear unlikely she could have fallen into the tank. But an accident has not been ruled out.
Jerry Speziale, Passaic County Sheriff: "The grate was ajar and at an angle caddy-corner so some one could step on that grate and fall in, accidentally."
Angara was a senior chemist at the plant. She worked there for 12 years, and was last seen calibrating instruments near the tanks Tuesday morning.
Her family became worried after Angara didn't return home tuesday night.
She leaves behind a husband and three children.
Officials drained more than nine million gallons of water from the tanks to recover Angara's two way radio, a clip board, a sneaker and her wallet.
The plant treats water from the Passaic and Pompton Rivers, converting it to drinking water for 800,000 people in Clifton, Passaic, Paterson and 14 other towns. Those towns are now under water advisories.
Ugh. Prayers for her family.
I'm on my way out right now. Don't drink water...fish fucprocreate in it.
FMCDH(BITS)
Gives new meaning to a "barf alert" thread
How long until we get our first troll claiming to be related to Geetha?
I say if one shows up, it'll be late tonight or tomorrow morning should this thread go quiet.
My G-d---I haven't heard that for years. I think I still have the LP!!
I can "grok" that.
FMCDH(BITS)
What's a STF to do with a WTF?
what is the First Republic Corporation "community"?
Ha ha, don't worry I had similar thoughts. I seriously doubt it, but hey, who knows in this crazy mixed up world!
EEEEEWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww YUCK!!!
yark.
She's been missing since Tuesday. You've been drinking human flavored water for the last two days.
WEll, I thought this article was hard to swallow, actually...
EXACTLY !!!
I think this story has a peculiar flavor about it.
"You know, I found this out AFTER I had my morning jo, good grief!"
Full bodied flavor?
Get some 80 proof vodka, mixers, and start drinking heavily...
I just spent a couple of days in this area. I'm real glad I only drank bottled water. Yikes.
It's the water that makes the pizza so good!
Sure yuck it up, why don't you?
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