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2007-02-12 Home Front: WoT

NYC Strengthens Water System Security After Bombs Found in California

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2007-02-12 13:45|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This makes it sound like the experts don't believe the "fishing dynamite" line they were peddling.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-12 14:43|| 2007-02-12 14:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Valve Vaults? Valve Vaults?!?!
We don' need no steenkeeeng Valve Vaults!

Posted by DanNY 2007-02-12 15:24|| 2007-02-12 15:24|| Front Page Top

#3 More like valve buildings or valve caverns for the size needed for NYC. I have seen some pics of them. They will take more than a New York Minute to close them big boy valves.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-02-12 15:33|| 2007-02-12 15:33|| Front Page Top

#4 A bigger target is the whole length of the aquaduct that brings the water down from the Catskills.

Lots of nighttime slow flights along that path since, oh, about 9/2001

Posted by NY observer 2007-02-12 17:56|| 2007-02-12 17:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Walwe?

Posted by Po-Han">Po-Han 2007-02-12 17:59|| 2007-02-12 17:59|| Front Page Top

#6 AP More like valve buildings or valve caverns for the size needed for NYC. I have seen some pics of them. They will take more than a New York Minute to close them big boy valves.

no speed tests eh! crank ever so slo
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USA, There are thousands of miles of critical water pipelines and aqueducts, many of our sweet water sources are wide open.. streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, canals and flumes etc.

And just like our Electric Transmission lines you can't practically protect every mile of pipeline with anything like full robust security.

critical Nodes YES, the whole shootin match NO.
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way back when dirt was newish, me and my bestus friend at the time named Dave made bombs for the fun it like most boys do at some point.. [yes the way-fun period of life but ever so foolish period too..the Beavis and Butthead stage]

Weeeell.. up in the beautiful coastal range of Caliphornia, thar waz [and still is] this tempting aqueduct with an open section of U shaped metal flume [6' diameter, 1/4 plate] running between the San Andreas Reservoir and the Crystal Springs Reservoir.

Somehow the two of us "spechul genusis" got stuck on, ["brilliant idea"] the concept of actually blowing a hole thru & thru the bottom of that fresh water steel flume.

btw it supplied not only our families needs but tens of thousands of other family's drinking water and household water needs.

yes we bombed it but damn if we weren't dumb lucky enough to fail [thank God], because nothing much in the way of damage came of our efforts. ahhhh

.... bad bad bad ~~RD, bad bad Dave~~ Beavis and Butthead!

Posted by RD 2007-02-12 19:48|| 2007-02-12 19:48|| Front Page Top

#7 HHHHHMMMMM, HHHHHHMMMMM, Fascist "Increase Govt at home, strengthen overseas, America rules" versus Commmie " Increase Govt at home, weaken oversea, Russia-China rules".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-12 19:57|| 2007-02-12 19:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Besides, the NYC sewers are patrolled by alligators!

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-02-12 23:22|| 2007-02-12 23:22|| Front Page Top

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