Boil Water Order for Several Towns after Plant Worker Found Dead in Tank (New Jersey)

WABC ^ | 2/10/05

[azhenfud]

I suspose many can say she was a really good woman.

[bonfire]

LOL Sorry, couldn't help myself!


My husband says your coffee probably got hot enough to kill any germs.

[Old Professer]

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.

[Incorrigible]

Heck, that far downstream the Passaic and Pompton Rivers, the water is already, err... shall we say, recycled anyway!

I'm sorry for this chemist. My wife was an environmental chemist for a while.

[Deetes]

OH Boy , I would flush my system with some good ole clean water or maybe some gin.

The health food stores do have clensing kits. I other cases the doc would have something.

Prayers for everyone. .

[mvpel]

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.

[telebob]

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...

[G32]

I don't mind a little long pig in the water..

[Manic_Episode]

I know someone who had a rat in their well but didn't figure it out all summer.
They said it looked like whipped cream when they found it.

[sure_fine]

hmm, fullbodied water that tastes a little fishy...hmmmm

[Physicist]

You brethren wouldn't be laughing if this happened to your cistern.

[Centurion2000]

So they have been pumping long pork broth out to the cities ...

Thank God for Texas.

[N. Theknow]

She was in over her head and now it's Taps for her.

[azhenfud]

"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."

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?

[ny demimonde]

....which is the reason i only drink bottled water.

[bonfire]

You soooo bad!

[kingattax]

W.C. Fields was right

[reagan_fanatic]

LOL!!

"Waiter, there's hair in my water!"

[RushCrush]

paterson is very mideastern and the woman's name is foreign. perhaps, she uncovered a plot?

Paging the writers of "24"!

[RushCrush]

Curious to know exactly how clean even bottled water can be??