PILOTS SAY RESERVOIR SECURITY IS H2WOEFUL

New York Post ^ | 7/1/02 | CLEMENTE LISI

[areafiftyone]

Concerned pilots who fly single-engine planes say it's easy to glide over a reservoir and dump hundreds of pounds of hazardous chemicals into the drinking-water system.

"I was surprised and scared at the same time," said Charles Sibirsky, 55, an amateur pilot from Brooklyn. "The reservoirs are so vulnerable, it's ridiculous."

[Swordmaker]

Hundreds of pounds of poisonous or hazardous materials dumped into a resevoir would not do a thing to the quality of the drinking water... It may raise the already existing levels of these pollutants in the water by one part per billion, but that's insignificant.

[John H K]

Unclear to me exactly what these people expect....Patriot Missle Batteries around every reservoir?

There aren't enough AA weapons in the entire US Army to defend all the reservoirs in even a handful of states; and there are so many drinking water reservoirs if you restricted the airspace around all of them you couldn't fly anywhere. And you'd have to withdraw every single US fighter from overseas if you wanted to fly CAP over every reservoir in just a handful of states.

[revtown]

Maybe we should open a cessna season. They could make good target practice. Might have to upgrade from a 12ga to a .223 semi auto.

[John W]

First target:big mouth Charles Sibirsky.

[chainsaw]

And you'd have to withdraw every single US fighter from overseas

That's not a bad idea you have there.

[John H K]

That's not a bad idea you have there.

I'm sure the PRC, Saddam Hussein, North Koreans, and any Al Qaeda and Taliban left in Afghanistan would agree.