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Low Flying Plane Creates Concern Over Tulsa's Water Supply
KTUL Channel 8, Tulsa, OK ^
| 1 October 2001
Posted on 10/01/2001 6:52:00 PM PDT by Vigilant1
Low Flying Plane Creates Concern Over Tulsa's Water Supply
A low flying plane created a concern in Tulsa after witnesses say it dropped something into Tulsa's water supply. The small plane flew over Lake Yahola near Mohawk Park around 3:45 Monday afternoon.
A plane has been detained at Jones Riverside Airport and the FBI is investigating. The instructor and student in the plane that was stopped say they were nowhere near the area.
As a precautionary measure, officials switched Tulsa's water supply to a flow line that runs from Lake Spavinaw. Samples have been taken from the reservoir and sent to a lab for testing to determine if any contaminants may have been introduced into the supply.
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To: HiTech RedNeck
To: HiTech RedNeck
Whereupon it would probably lose some of its resistance to antibiotics.
62
posted on
10/01/2001 8:03:32 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
To: Vigilant1
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...
63
posted on
10/01/2001 8:05:18 PM PDT
by
Cleburne
To: Vigilant1
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. . .
To: Vigilant1
Why rent a plane when you can simply walk up to the edge near the filtration plant intake and quietly drop a bag in?
To: HiTech RedNeck proud2beRC romulus *mano*
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.
66
posted on
10/01/2001 8:09:17 PM PDT
by
Askel5
To: Vigilant1
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!
To: Vigilant1
Good choice but bot tox couldn't make the trip. Chlorine and bleach and sunlight.
To: all
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.
To: Vigilant1
Should of shot it down then.
I mean..is it just me?
To: VaBthang4
"I mean..is it just me?" Yes it is! You're a real dumb s#it!
71
posted on
10/01/2001 8:25:51 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Cleburne
Why? What is so important about Tulsa? Just the location-right in the middle of the US?
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To: nagdt
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.
74
posted on
10/01/2001 8:39:57 PM PDT
by
CityGirl
To: WyldKard
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.
To: Vigilant1
Even if they did drop poison in to the water supply, with all the chlorine they put in the water here, Im 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.
To: brigette
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.)
77
posted on
10/01/2001 8:51:14 PM PDT
by
Howie
To: Askel5
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.
78
posted on
10/01/2001 8:51:42 PM PDT
by
Romulus
To: nunya bidness
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.
To: HiTech RedNeck
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...
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