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Water Crisis Intentional Events
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Montgomery County beef processor to pay $2 million for polluting - Thu, Jun. 17, 2010 - A Montgomery County beef-processing plant that officials said released fish-killing pollutants into the Skippack Creek will pay $2 million in penalties, federal officials announced Wednesday. The fines were levied after the firm, Moyer Packing Co. in Franconia Township, dumped pollutants into the creek. Skippack Creek is a tributary of the Perkiomen Creek, which flows into the Schuylkill. Read more…
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Water Security and Bioterrorism: Report says U.S. not ready for clean up effort after a bioterror attack (14 April 2010): A recent assessment, appearing in the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, found that even with policy implementation since 9/11, the process of environmental decontamination would still be very difficult and costly and that the lines of responsibility are still unclear. Read more...
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Botox toxin warned to be potent bio-weapon: Terrorists have long been drawn to the toxin as a way to inflict widespread casualties through contamination of food or water supplies. Now, with the emergence of a global black market for fake Botox, terrorism experts see an opportunity for a deadly convergence. Read more…
- Vandals spill millions of gallons of water from reservoir – Millions of gallons of water have escaped a Kansas dam. The problem is that it wasn’t supposed to happen and now authorities are calling the case a crime. The incident happened September 10th and now authorities are searching for who’s responsible for tampering with the recently-completed Horsethief Reservoir in Hodgeman County. It was only last week that Horsethief Reservoir passed state inspection. The quality of construction was checked out, but maybe they should have looked at one more thing – security. "Somebody broke in, climbed over the fence, and let just a little bit of water out,” said Park Manager Josh Hobbs. Read more...
- Former lab owner accused of filing phony water tests: The former owner of an environmental testing laboratory in Westford was indicted yesterday for submitting falsified water testing reports to the Department of Environmental Protection for several municipalities, according to authorities. Read more…
- Slaying the hackers: At Maroochydore on Queensland's Sunshine Coast in 2000, the shire council experienced what it thought were teething problems with a new wastewater system. Radio commands to wastewater pumping stations were disappearing, pumps were failing and alarms meant to alert staff to faults were not going off. Read more…
- Illinois sues Crestwood over contaminated well: Already facing a federal criminal investigation, Crestwood Mayor Robert Stranczek and his father were sued in state court today and accused of repeatedly lying about their secret use of a community well contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals. Read more…
- A Texas oil wholesaler and two of its executives pleaded guilty to violating the federal safe drinking-water Act for disposing of oil-contaminated wastewater from its refinery process at an underground injection well permitted to accept wastes only from exploration and production operations… read more…
- Poison in the well: Crestwood officials cut corners and supplied residents with tainted water for 2 decades…For more than two decades, the 11,000 or so residents in this working-class community unknowingly drank tap water contaminated with toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems, a Tribune investigation found.… read more…
- 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals have been released into American waterways, including those that provide drinking water. New information shows the drugs include everything from antibiotics to opiates to tranquilizers. When we began to hear reports of pharmaceutical contamination in drinking water, we decided to put our water to the test.… read more…
- Federal officials have arrested two Al Qaeda terror suspects in the U.S. with documents in their possession about how to poison the country's water supplies...read more...
- A terrorist plan to poison Rome's water supply has been thwarted by the detention of four suspected Islamic militants and the seizure of cyanide-based chemicals...read more...
- FBI issued the latest in a series of warnings regarding possible terrorist attacks against American targets. This time the nation's water utilities were told to prepare to defend themselves against possible attacks on pumping stations and pipes that serve its cities and suburbs. The effort comes after the discovery of documents in Afghanistan, which indicate that al Qaeda terrorists have been investigating ways to disrupt the U.S. water supply on a massive scale...read more...
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