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Boil Water Order for Several Towns after Plant Worker Found Dead in Tank (New Jersey)
WABC ^ | 2/10/05

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.

Click for a More Information on the Boil Water Advisory

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.


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To: TexKat

I stopped drinking straight "tap" 15 years ago. This just reinforces my decision.


61 posted on 02/10/2005 11:36:03 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: sure_fine

Got a toothpick, hon? Got *something* stuck in my teeth, I do.


62 posted on 02/10/2005 11:38:49 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: boxerblues

Well for the first day it was probably like drinking from a pond people swim in. After the decay set in the idea gets grosser.


63 posted on 02/10/2005 11:39:16 AM PST by Bogey78O (Hillary Clinton + Fertility pills + Scott Peterson + rowboat = Success)
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To: TexKat

I lived in North Jersey for a few years, and only a moron would consider using tap water there for anything but washing your car.


64 posted on 02/10/2005 11:39:40 AM PST by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: OXENinFLA

Bump


65 posted on 02/10/2005 11:43:31 AM PST by Gucho
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To: TexKat


Aw, now that's why I don't drink water. naaaaaaaaasty


66 posted on 02/10/2005 11:44:10 AM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: ny demimonde
....which is the reason i only drink bottled water.

Bottled water also came out of a tap somewhere.

67 posted on 02/10/2005 11:45:43 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: TexKat

I would make a big bowl of NJ tap water, and call it a light broth.


68 posted on 02/10/2005 11:45:45 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: ny demimonde
Geetha.

I love that name.

Geetha.

69 posted on 02/10/2005 11:46:39 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Physicist
You brethren wouldn't be laughing if this happened to your cistern.

BWAhahahahahahahaha, LMAO

70 posted on 02/10/2005 11:48:16 AM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: TexKat

SO glad I have my own well


71 posted on 02/10/2005 11:52:24 AM PST by maine-iac7 (...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: TexKat; agrace; bassoonmoo

ping for the article and replies.


72 posted on 02/10/2005 11:53:19 AM PST by lupie
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To: RepubMommy

Ecch!


73 posted on 02/10/2005 11:53:58 AM PST by Pete'sWife (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: maine-iac7

See #49 ;-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340435/posts?page=32#49


74 posted on 02/10/2005 11:56:26 AM PST by kenth (I love the smell of burning troll in the morning.)
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To: Physicist

You know, a Møøse tried to fall into my cistern once...


75 posted on 02/10/2005 12:02:37 PM PST by Pharmboy ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
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I'm just wondering just how this is different from what passes for water in ultra-polluted ultra-liberal New Jersey anyway....


76 posted on 02/10/2005 12:04:32 PM PST by Spktyr
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To: RepubMommy

That stinky water could bleach yer hair!


77 posted on 02/10/2005 12:05:54 PM PST by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: crabbie

FYI!!


78 posted on 02/10/2005 12:07:04 PM PST by all4one (My thoughts and prayers are with our soldiers.....and their families)
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To: TexKat
Ironic. An expert in water purification winds up spoiling the water. A talk she gave in Quebec last November.

1. 10:30 AM Intermediate and Long-Term Manganese Control Strategies During the Upgrade of Little Falls Water Treatment Plant
Geetha Angara, Passaic Valley Water Co
Effective control of manganese for the different phases of the upgrade-understanding the process of manganese removal-different oxidation states of manganese and pH dependency of oxidation kinetices-bench and full-scale evaluation of pre-oxidation.

79 posted on 02/10/2005 12:07:30 PM PST by Pharmboy ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
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To: Spktyr

NJ is mostly red with the blue in Newark, Camden and Jersey City--my county (Morris) went for Bush with 57% of the vote.


80 posted on 02/10/2005 12:09:39 PM PST by Pharmboy ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
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