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.
Oh, my darling
Oh, my darling,
Oh, my darling Geethaline ( you have to fudge that part)
You are lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorry Geethaline.
pretty messed up, huh?
I find it ironic that the death of this woman, who was evidently a chemist who was making good money, left her family high and dry. Of course, they might have had insurance, but if they didn't, they'll be taking a bath.
So let's not forget that this woman had a family. She will be mist...especially if they put her through sprinklers. [rimshot] And I'm sure the last thing her husband said to her as she left was "Don't forget to water the lawn tonight!"
No, seriously, we shouldn't make fun of this poor dead woman. Water we thinking, especially with all these people now feeling sick to their stomachs? It'll be the first time in history people who puke DON'T ask for some water to rinse their mouths out.
This just goes to show you how dangerous dihydrogen monoxide really is.
Okay; works for me, f!
Well...I'm sure a few folks down at the treatment plant wanted to save the water as a base for their next consomme.
But where exactly did they put the nine million gallons of dead woman soup? Not the kind of thing you want running hither and yon, even through NJ. Why do I see them putting it into the sewers to be re-cleaned?
Intriguing. Didn't I see this on Law & Order? Or X-Files?
There is a case going on here, in NJ right now with charges being investigated against Hemant Lakhani, an Indian National, for that missile that was shipped here from Russia.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/publicaffairs/NJ_Press/files/la0813_r.htm
No, don't know if he knew Angara. I was just adding to the thought.
Remember the song that goes something like "hold my girl in a paper cup, better drink her up, love her and she'll bring you luck"?
WOMAN'S CORPSE IN WATER TANK
I don't find anything about this funny. WABC leaves out details. Her clipboad etc were found in a different tank from her body. Her husband and three children were there while they were draining the tanks. She is a chemist and was testing water quality. Was the water tested again after she went missing? Just when did they start draining the tanks?
OOOOOUch.
As long as we're compiling a CD...
Love's got me treadin' water, your love's got me treadin' water
Oh oh, I'm gonna let ya go
Your love's got me treadin' water
An' I'm so tired of treadin' water
Oh oh, I'm gonna let ya go
I'm over my head, I just can't last
You're crampin' my style, ya got me sinkin' fast
C'mon gotta cut the line
We're runnin' out of time, yeah, yeah, oh yeah
That's not only some puns - that's an entire decomposition!
Perhaps a bit too much, had a rather bloated feel to it. But funny!
Well, I thought I'd toss a few in and watch the best ones float to the top. But then, I kind of agree with you. I probably drowned y'all in puns there. Sorry about that...I'll try to let you catch your breath next time instead of inundating you with them.
I just informed my daughters boyfriend, who works in Fairlawn, not to drink the water! Gross!
after biting your sister...?
lots of strange things happening.
i was out of town last week and would have thought they made an arrest in the jersey city slaughter. either the police are closing in or they don't want to upset certain groups and have them howling about profiling and discriminating against the religion of pieces.
This woman may not have been a native American and she may not have been a Christian but she was a human being who may have been murdered. She suffered horribly and her family must have been in agony for the three days she was missing.
To a point I appreciate a morbid sense of humor as much as anyone else but most of the responses on this thread have been unusually disgusting.
Police are saying today (2.14) it was a homicide.
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