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.
I suspose many can say she was a really good woman.
LOL Sorry, couldn't help myself!
My husband says your coffee probably got hot enough to kill any germs.
If you use a coffee maker with a standard paper filter and the pot heats the water to steeping temperature (~200 degrees F), you have nothing to worry about except the image in your mind.
The health food stores do have clensing kits. I other cases the doc would have something.
Prayers for everyone. .
Oh, really now, people - there's only so many atoms of flesh in the water, out of more than nine million gallons that were in the tank and however many millions more went into the pipes.
Have you ever looked at treated municipal water under a microscope before? That'd put you off tap water for the rest of your life if you're the queasy type.
Probably not too much to worry about...it is a treatment plant and the water is continually disinfected. The tank sounds like a flow-through storage unit.
It's not like she was dumped in some remote reservoir. The boil order is merely a precaution. Testing will show up any contamination either at the plant or in the distribution system.
Resume the jokes...
I don't mind a little long pig in the water..
hmm, fullbodied water that tastes a little fishy...hmmmm
Thank God for Texas.
She was in over her head and now it's Taps for her.
My dad has been building/installing swimming pools for three decades. Every time one is filled with municipal water, it takes more chemicals to stabilize the water than does H2O from a private ground well.
Does anyone know or has anyone considered the cost of cleanup to a city/government/economy if terrorists were to successfully contaminate a municipal system with heavy metals?
....which is the reason i only drink bottled water.
You soooo bad!
W.C. Fields was right
Paging the writers of "24"!
Curious to know exactly how clean even bottled water can be??
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