Low Flying Plane Creates Concern Over Tulsa's Water Supply

KTUL Channel 8, Tulsa, OK ^ | 1 October 2001

[Brian Kopp DPM]

I just posted this thread:

Virtual Naval Hospital: Treatment of Biological Warfare Agent Casualties

This has everything you ever wanted to know about bioterror but were afraid to ask.

[Poohbah]

Whereupon it would probably lose some of its resistance to antibiotics.

[Cleburne]

Yup, I'm sure terrorists would attack Tulsa and do it in broad daylight. And of course they would us an extremely expensive and rare form of toxin to do it. Terror in the heartland...

[2Jedismom]

Wow! People actually fish out of these lakes. Nice little benches to sit on and trees to sit under. Lots of people hanging around fishing out of them.

I took my 2 year old to Jones airport this past weekend to watch the touch and go's. He had a real problem with planes after he saw that one crash into the second building. I took him out there to assure him all was well. He played in the grass and waved at the planes as they went by. Now people are being detained there!

Wow. . .

[Blood of Tyrants]

Why rent a plane when you can simply walk up to the edge near the filtration plant intake and quietly drop a bag in?

[Askel5]

I certainly hope you run it through a Brita, Romulus. (Or, then again, given your "sweet-smelling" dogs, perhaps yours IS an entirely different Mississippi River than mine!)

My dream filter: Katadyn.

I figure I might end up with CLEAR water with one of those things.

[Doctor Don]

It was not a small package........it was very large........they dropped Rosie O'Donnell on Tulsa......there is no antidote for this very toxic poison. We felt it hit here in Oklahoma City!

[nunya bidness]

Good choice but bot tox couldn't make the trip. Chlorine and bleach and sunlight.

[stlnative]

Ok... This might be a few stupid questions.
I know that airplanes dump their toliet waste in the mid-air during flights.
What I don't know is how often do they do it?
Is it only large planes that are allowed to do this?
Are or smaller planes allowed to dump toliet waste also?
Is their regulations on this and if there is what are they?

What would stop someone from flushing something toxic down a airplane toliet
and only to have it dumped in mid air at some time?
If this is possible and if it happened... Would it be to high up to even affect us?

It is scary to start thinking about all the ways they could attack us. But then again WE
(as in all Americans) have to think about it so we can prevent it from happening.

[VaBthang4]

Should of shot it down then.

I mean..is it just me?

[blam]

"I mean..is it just me?"

Yes it is! You're a real dumb s#it!

[I'm ALL Right!]

Why? What is so important about Tulsa? Just the location-right in the middle of the US?

[CityGirl]

Speaking for the state of Georgia (I work for the water department in Savannah) we have had advisories from our state environmental authorities (who have been in communication with the FBI) that we do need to take measures to safeguard the local water supplies and reservoirs. We are doing so.

[Centurion2000]

A small package? How big is the resevor? If its sizable, a small package aint going to cut it, unless it's some super sci-fi fantasy mutagen or something...

Ever did any research on Ricin ???

It's enough to worry some friends of mine.

[guitar Josh]

Even if they did drop poison in to the water supply, with all the chlorine they put in the water here, I’m sure it would kill the toxins. But, with all the crap (literally) and other disgusting stuff in the water supply here, our digestive systems are probably used to it.

[Howie]

Sometimes the fitting that the ground pumpers hook to leaks and the dripping liquid forms a large iceball on the outside of the plane. When the plane descends to warmer altitudes the ball falls off and comes down and makes a blue splash on the ground. (I worked under the flight path of an airport for years.)

[Romulus]

I'm a Sweetwater man myself -- except for the time I forgot it in the car, setting myself up for the Great Bear War on the AT.

Why they name a filter after Katahdin is a mystery to me. I climbed Katahdin once. It was a dry and rocky sub-arctic tundra. Thoreau Spring is the only high water on the mountain, not reliable in the summertime, and well below the summit.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

From the Naval site:

Water reservoirs and other large water supplies are difficult to contaminate due to the effect of dilution on the concentration of toxins or microorganisms. In addition, standard water treatment methods of filtration and chlorination inactivate most viruses, bacteria, and toxins. However, several pathogens and toxins can survive standard water treatment; an example is Cryptosporidium parvum. Water could be used as a vehicle for biological attack if water was contaminated near the end-user.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Oral doxy 200 mg every day for prophylaxis. If you are close friends with just about any kind of doctor or dentist (possibly even a vetinarian, you'd have to be careful of human versus animal dose tho) they should be willing to give you an RX for Doxy just to put your mind at ease.

I've never done a web search on foreign pharmaceutical sales web sites, but it may be worth a little research...