America's Drinking Water Supply is Vulnerable
by Guest Blogger, 3/29/2006
How safe is your drinking water five years after 9/11? Apparently not so safe that a couple of high school kids can't break in and have the run of the place:
BLACKSTONE, Massachusetts (AP) -- Authorities charged two teenagers in connection with a break-in at a water facility and expected to charge a third as more than 9,000 area residents waited to hear Wednesday whether their drinking water had been contaminated.
The teens are suspected of cutting the barbed wire at the facility late Monday, cutting lines to an alarm, and then damaging an electrical panel and a vent at the top of a 1.3-million-gallon water storage tank, said Blackstone Police Lt. Gregory Gilmore.
A 5-gallon container with an odor was found on top of the tank, but authorities do not yet know what, if anything, was put into the water. . . .
"We know for sure that when they tampered with the vent cover at the top of the tower some debris had fallen into the water supply," Gilmore said.
[Via CNN.com - U.S.]
All this time after 9/11 and the homeland is still unsecured.
