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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Unexplained Break-In at Bethlehem Reservoir

Bethlehem's reservoirs serve over 115,000 people in 11 different municipalities, including Bethlehem. A break-in at one of them has resident Steve Antalics concerned. At the August meeting of Bethlehem Authority, City Engineer Ed Boscola reported the trespass. He is unable to state why someone would want to break in, and acknowledged that there are no security cameras in place to monitor activity. Antalics believes that the City needs to take measures to protect its vulnerable water supply, and will ask the City to investigate this matter tonight.

Threats to municipal water supplies fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI.

19 comments:

  1. It is just a matter of time until there is a terrorist attack on the scale of 911, the possibilities are endless, and almost impossible to predict. Bin Laden is fulfilling his promise to bleed the United States until we get out of the middle east. Bethlehem probably needs to have 24 hr security at the water supply.

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  2. Gee, wonder how boscola got his job.......................

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  3. Probably kids. Terrorists trying to pollute a water supply face two difficulties. One is that it would either take a LOT of poison, as the water would dilute it considerably. Or if the water didn't pollute it, it would be filtered out by the water works, as part of the water treatment process.

    Although possible in books of fiction, trying to pollute a water supply as a terrorist act is a remote possibility at best

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  4. Made a typo. Should have written "if the water didn't dilute it" apologies.

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  5. I think it was someone who could not afford to go to a public pool, and it was soooo hot, they just broke in. Free the Pools! I hope they didnt take a poop in the reservoir though.

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  6. Teens and young adults (and even some old adults) have been breaking into the reservoir for years. Many go to the springs to swim, relax and drink, some adults go to fish. I hear there are very large fish in the lakes. This happens routinely. Years ago people were cutting down trees and selling the wood. Nothing new.

    As the comment above states, it is hard to poison a water supply.

    Also, the Bethlehem Authority does have at least 2 "police" officers working for them, who routinely bust these people.

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  7. City police retire by age fifty....why not offer a job (part time) to these people to patrol the are. I believe the area is about twenty miles square. And by all means, install cameras.

    VOR

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  8. All you have to do is add the right bacteria or virus to sicken people. The security cameras should be installed asap.

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  9. Although possible in books of fiction, trying to pollute a water supply as a terrorist act is a remote possibility at best "

    Statements like this are almost an invitation. It's already happened on several occasions, but you bury your head in the sand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_terrorism

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  10. The link demonstrates numerous attempts to contaminate a water supply, but keep burying your head in the sand.

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  11. Was this in Penn Forest? Could be related to someone snooping around relative to the controversial wind power project?

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  12. i thought at first it was Penn Forest, but it could be South Mountain.

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  13. As the lake at Beltzville State Park is always being closed for contamination, I suppose terrorism is a possibility.

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  14. hmmm.

    looks like you've posted a response to my disappeared comment.

    I thought I had done my research, but I guess you don't want your readers to see it.

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  15. I deleted no comment. It was apparently placed in my spam folder. Had I intended to delete it, I would not have responded to it. But since you are intent on making a false accusation, I'll delete it now.

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  16. The water supply is way more likely to be polluted by local industry than anything else. Monitoring business or industrial discharge will never be debated or explored...Just terrorism that's where the payday is.

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  17. the problem with terror attacks on a water supply is that the amount of unobtanium toxin used for example would be more effective(from a terror point of view)being distributed via other means.
    if anything the danger is terrorists taking advantage of a lack of regulayions on businesses near water supplies.
    for example a determined attack in West Virginia could have made it much worse.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill

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  18. I also seem to remember that I have redd an article years ago about the dumping of p2p into a water supply up north some years back?!
    Re:publican redd no party affilliation

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