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| NYC Strengthens Water System Security After Bombs Found in California |
| 2007-02-12 |
| The Associated Press has reported that NYC authorities beefed up patrols and surveillance Thursday at critical points in the city's water system after pipe bombs were found in a portion of the California Aqueduct. Ian Michaels, a spokesman for the city's Department of Environmental Protection, said that it was strictly a precautionary measure. The DEP protects the cityÂ’s water system that supplies 8 million residents. Three pipe bombs were discovered Tuesday near a valve in a portion of the California Aqueduct, which had been partially drained as part of a routine check for submerged objects. The California Highway Patrol said that if the bombs had been triggered, they could have opened the valve and released water. A bomb unit detonated them in a safe area. It is not known if the bombs were placed in the aqueduct to intentionally disrupt California's water supplies, but Michaels said New York City wasn't going to take any chances. Michaels said the added security would be ongoing and thus far, DEP officers hadnÂ’t discovered anything suspicious. New York City has the largest unfiltered surface water supply in the world. According to the DEP's Web site. Every day, some 1.3 billions gallons of water from this vast system is delivered to residents. That is almost a million gallons per minute average flow. I wonder how well protected NYC's valve vaults are. The New York City Water Supply System includes a watershed of 1,969 sq miles across eight counties north and west of the city. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #8 Besides, the NYC sewers are patrolled by alligators! |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-02-12 23:22 |
| #7 HHHHHMMMMM, HHHHHHMMMMM, Fascist "Increase Govt at home, strengthen overseas, America rules" versus Commmie " Increase Govt at home, weaken oversea, Russia-China rules". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-12 19:57 |
| #6 AP More like valve buildings or valve caverns for the size needed for NYC. I have seen some pics of them. They will take more than a New York Minute to close them big boy valves. no speed tests eh! crank ever so slo **** USA, There are thousands of miles of critical water pipelines and aqueducts, many of our sweet water sources are wide open.. streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, canals and flumes etc. And just like our Electric Transmission lines you can't practically protect every mile of pipeline with anything like full robust security. critical Nodes YES, the whole shootin match NO. *** way back when dirt was newish, me and my bestus friend at the time named Dave made bombs for the fun it like most boys do at some point.. [yes the way-fun period of life but ever so foolish period too..the Beavis and Butthead stage] Weeeell.. up in the beautiful coastal range of Caliphornia, thar waz [and still is] this tempting aqueduct with an open section of U shaped metal flume [6' diameter, 1/4 plate] running between the San Andreas Reservoir and the Crystal Springs Reservoir. Somehow the two of us "spechul genusis" got stuck on, ["brilliant idea"] the concept of actually blowing a hole thru & thru the bottom of that fresh water steel flume. btw it supplied not only our families needs but tens of thousands of other family's drinking water and household water needs. yes we bombed it but damn if we weren't dumb lucky enough to fail [thank God], because nothing much in the way of damage came of our efforts. ahhhh .... bad bad bad |
| Posted by: RD 2007-02-12 19:48 |
| #5 Walwe? |
| Posted by: Po-Han 2007-02-12 17:59 |
| #4 A bigger target is the whole length of the aquaduct that brings the water down from the Catskills. Lots of nighttime slow flights along that path since, oh, about 9/2001 |
| Posted by: NY observer 2007-02-12 17:56 |
| #3 More like valve buildings or valve caverns for the size needed for NYC. I have seen some pics of them. They will take more than a New York Minute to close them big boy valves. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-02-12 15:33 |
| #2 Valve Vaults? Valve Vaults?!?! We don' need no steenkeeeng Valve Vaults! |
| Posted by: DanNY 2007-02-12 15:24 |
| #1 This makes it sound like the experts don't believe the "fishing dynamite" line they were peddling. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-02-12 14:43 |