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.
Bump.
See the post I responded to (you probably answered some of those SAT questions before you finished reading them).
Damn straight....the same way I like my bourbon.
FMCDH
My husband and I drove thru Patterson after 9/11; we thought we were in Baghdad. We had no idea there was such a heavy Arab population there--we couldn't read any of the signs.
Ping
Ohh you're bad!
If you were to fall in, are there any ladders or other ways to get out? Did she know how to swim?
Soylent Water is people! Peeeeooplllllle!
Years ago, we discovered a dead rat floating in a large water tank on my grandparents' farm. The health department told us that the decomposition of the rat actually introduces organisms into the water that help to purity the water. As I recall, we drained the tank and started over with fresh water.
Shades of Carl Hiassen's "Skinny Dip". What was she investigating?
Yep, We've been following this since yesterday when it was posted on the Threat Matrix.
Still nothing on the "official" govt H20 sites that I know of at work.
Taking the info in today with me.
One more reason I stay armed at all times.
Not so bad. Now, if she has pee'd in it . . .
It would take such large amounts to contaminate that this is very unlikely to happen.
I think it's a rotten story; the body of the article is really watered down.
....and i thought bottled water originates in pristine wells.
as far as 24 is concerned, i'm always a step ahead of each episode. ;)
It will be on CSI first most likely!
It's sounding very much like a homicide.
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