BREAKING: 7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State (Arabs)

CBS Boston ^ | 5/15/2013 | CBS

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

BELCHERTOWN (CBS) – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.

State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.

[butterdezillion]

Hmm. And some of these people wandering around in the forest where this water supply is, doing research related to their engineering degrees, were from Saudi Arabia where this coronavirus comes from?

Obviously nothing to see here. No reason to monitor their calls, like AP phones have to be monitored...

[Fitzy_888]

There is a tightly regulated large reservoir near me, pre 9-11 people use to sneak in to fish. As it’s virtually unfished, the fishing is great. There is nowhere to park and the roads were regularly patrolled, you needed to hike in or have someone drop you off and pick you up -again, this is all pre 9-11 security. Get caught doing any of that now and your screwed.

[NormsRevenge]

I wonder how many industrious ‘students’ and ‘chemical engineers’ have already blazed a trail.. looking for new killing grounds. I wonder..

[bgill]

around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, a State trooper noticed two vehicles parked on the grass at the Quabbin Reservoir "middle entrance.”

Testing. Dry run. Now they know that there are eyes so next time they'll have to recruit a driver. Or they were the distraction from the real mission. If they'd been named Billy Joe or Bubba, their names and mug shots would be all over MSNBC this morning. What's the status of their student visas? If they've recently graduated, will their visas expire before their court date giving them an excuse to leave?

[billys kid]

He should stay on this story.

Freepers can text Jeff @680680.

His radio program is on from 6:00-9:00am. And he’s back on from 11:00a.m. to noon.

I also sent this report to Drudge.

[ThomasMore]

Not sure why they would say you need a truckload?

“Moreover, the ability of waterborne pathogens to cause massive outbreaks has been demonstrated. In 1993, a huge outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cryptosporidium organisms passed undetected through two water treatment plants and are estimated to have caused more than 403,000 illnesses and 4,400 hospitalizations among the 800,000 customers served by the water system.19 Although this incident was not the result of bioterrorism, it demonstrated to public health professionals the vulnerabilities of populations to microbial contamination of treated water supplies. Cryptosporidium was first identified in 1907, but it was not recognized as a source of waterborne disease until 1987 when it was associated with a 15,000-person outbreak in a filtered system in Georgia.20 This suggests that there is much work to be done in improving our understanding of drinking water as a source of community illness.”

more here...

http://www.upmchealthsecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2006/2006-06-15-watersecuritypolicy.html

[PLMerite]

“Seven Mohammedan Chemical Engineering grads wandering around Boston’s main water supply after midnight last night. Nothing to see here. Move along.”

Just a little late-night reconnaissance. [Critique snipped ‘cause I don’t want to make their job easier.]

[DeWalt]

Terrorist don’t have to do major damage just work on Psyche of the people. Thats what terrorism is. Our panic along with the governments actions will do the trick. Look at the Boston aftermath. Mission success.

[Doogle]

trial

[AuH2ORepublican]

“If I lived in an area with rapid dogs...”

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You mean, like, greyhounds?

I think you meant rabid dogs. : )

[Dubh_Ghlase]

The only thing more amazing than how stupid they think we are, is how stupid we REALLY are in letting them pull this stuff! After all that has happened, for foreign nationals (particularly muslims or from muslim countries) to have the gonads to do stuff like this is just beyond unbelievable!!!

Way past time to weed these people out...

[FreedomPoster]

See tagline.

[daniel1212]

We get our water from there - quite good. Has some real history.

The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was built between 1930 and 1939. Today along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, some 65 miles (105 km) to the east, as well as 40 other communities in Greater Boston. It also supplies water to three towns west of the reservoir and acts as backup supply for three others.[1] It has an aggregate capacity of 412 billion US gallons (1.56 km3) and an area of 38.6 square miles (99.9 km²).

The Quabbin was formed by inundating the Swift River Valley, a drainage basin lying entirely within the state, by damming the river and a col, through which Beaver Brook would have otherwise provided another outlet for its water. When construction began in 1936 the Swift River was redirected from its riverbed through a diversion tunnel. On August 14, 1939, that tunnel was sealed with rock. Over the next seven years the waters of the Quabbin Reservoir slowly rose behind the newly completed Winsor Dam, an earth-filled structure 2,640 feet (800 m) long, rising 170 feet (52 m) above the riverbed, and the slightly smaller Goodnough Dike. The water gradually submerged the roads that had linked the towns. It swallowed all but the peaks of about sixty hills and mountains, transforming Prescott Ridge into Prescott Peninsula.

During the time in which the reservoir was forming, the eventual bed of the reservoir was used as the Quabbin Reservoir Precision Bombing and Gunnery Range. The range was used by planes from both Hanscom Army Air Field and Westover Army Air Field.

Quite Towns disincorporated

The Quabbin's creation required the flooding, and thus the disincorporation, in April 1938, of four towns: Dana (located in Worcester County), Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott (all located in Hampshire County). The land remaining from the disincorporated towns was added to surrounding municipalities, including Belchertown, Pelham, New Salem, Petersham, Hardwick and Ware. One additional town on the reservoir is Shutesbury, in Franklin County. Because of New Salem's annexation of the Prescott Peninsula, a large wedge of land shifted from Hampshire County to Franklin County. Today, the majority of the reservoir lies in either New Salem or Petersham.

In addition, thirty-six miles of the Boston and Albany Railroad's Athol Branch were abandoned (originally the Springfield, Athol and Northeastern Railroad). Route 21, formerly reaching Athol, was truncated to the south side of the reservoir, and new roads—now US 202 and Route 32A—were built on each side.

When the buildings in the towns flooded by the reservoir were destroyed, the cellars were left intact. Old roads that once led to the flooded towns can be followed to the water's edge. Not all elements of the towns were flooded, however. Town memorials and cemeteries in the four towns were moved to Quabbin Park Cemetery, located on Route 9 in Ware, just off the Quabbin's lands. Many other public buildings were moved to other locations. For example, the Prescott First Congregational Church was moved to South Hadley.[4]

Because of state restrictions, most areas around the reservoir are accessible only by foot, through fifty-five surrounding gates. Few people ever go into the deep woods, and it has become a wildlife area. Bald eagles, moose, deer, coyotes, black bears, foxes, and bobcats share the habitat, among others. Large portions of Dana are on higher ground, and its remains, predominantly cellar holes, as well as the former town green (where a historic stone marker was placed) can be visited. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quabbin_Reservoi

[MaxMax]

Guns cannot protect us from Cancer agents placed in our water supply.
The time for profiling is a decade overdue.

[Fitzy_888]

Exactly, that’s why we just saw a Saudi fly in with a pressure cooker -continually stoke fear in between what are relatively rare attacks.

[Biggirl]

It has a very interesting history.

[Biggirl]

Cancer is caused by other factors.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

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[silverleaf]

News of Abassi’s arrest came Thursday, when U.S. documents were unsealed that shed light on both Abassi and Esseghaier.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/05/10/toronto_terror_plot_third_man_arrested_had_difficulty_returning_to_canada_from_tunisia.html

The documents detail how FBI had been trailing Abassi since his arrival in March. Their terrorist task force included an undercover agent who, according to documents, recorded hours of conversations with Abassi in which he described plans for terrorist acts in U.S. and abroad. Among them was an alleged plan to kill up to 100,000 people by “contaminating the air or water with bacteria.”

[MaxMax]

It seems to me that it would take tons of any agent to do any damage.
And the biological stuff would be killed by the Chlorine. I cannot imagine what
a terrorist could use to contaminate a large water supply and be effective.