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According to Reuters, over 1,000 Toyota and Lexus owners have reported sudden,
spontaneous acceleration of their vehicles since 2001, including crashes blamed for 19
deaths, far more than earlier disclosed. The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) previously has said it had received reports of 100 such incidents,
including 17 crashes and five fatalities as of November 8. (See item 9)
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The Charlotte Observer reported on November 10 that across North Carolina, mental
patients are routinely languishing for days in emergency rooms ill-equipped to care for
them, waiting for a bed to open at one of four state-run psychiatric hospitals, often, passing
the time handcuffed or sedated. (See item 25)
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Energy Sector
Current Electricity Sector Threat Alert Levels: Physical: ELEVATED,
Cyber: ELEVATED
Scale: LOW, GUARDED, ELEVATED, HIGH, SEVERE [Source: ISAC for the Electricity Sector (ES-ISAC) [http://www.esisac.com]
1. November 10, WNCT 9 Jacksonville – (National) Tropical Storm Ida makes landfall
causing problems along Gulf Coast. Tropical Storm Ida made landfall near Mobile
Bay, Alabama, early morning on November 10, but the storm has already caused
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problems along its path. On November 9, the Coast Guard had to rescue two men
stationed on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard crews fought Ida’s powerful
winds, as they rescued the two men around 80 miles south of New Orleans. Chevron,
which owns the rig, fears the structure may collapse. The storm has already shut down
nearly 30% of Gulf Coast oil production. A State of Emergency has been declared in
Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. There are no mandatory evacuations, but
authorities in coastal area are encouraging people near the water or in mobile homes to
seek shelter.
Source:
http://www2.wnct.com/nct/news/national/article/tropical_storm_ida_makes_landfall_ca
using_problems_along_gulf_coast/73040/
2. November 9, VentureBeat – (National) New SAIC software predicts grid failures
weeks, months in advance. Engineering firm Scientific Applications International
(SAIC), a company that has been playing at the edges of the emerging Smart Grid
space, is putting the finishing touches on software that could predict and pinpoint the
causes of electricity outages up to months in advance. Dubbed the Distribution
Monitoring System, the software will be released soon, reports Smart Grid Today. The
system combines years’ worth of previously recorded data, with knowledge about how
certain pieces of equipment work, their failure rates, and their likely reasons for failure.
One of the key pieces of information is maximum voltage limits for transformers,
substations and other milestones along the electricity supply chain. If voltage exceeds
these limits, the equipment will fry and fail. By continuously running all of this data
side by side, the company claims its software can determine which equipment is most
likely to fail in the next several days. Then, by connecting failure rates to their causes,
it can make suggestions for how to avert future outages. It has even licensed Google
Earth to indicate exactly where the failure-prone equipment is located. This could help
utilities send out maintenance crews before costly outages or disruptions occur.
Preventing grid failure is one of the major goals of the cleaner, more efficient electrical
grid slowly being built in the U.S. and abroad. SAIC’s Distribution Monitoring System,
which sends alerts up the chain of command at utilities, could be the future of advanced
outage prevention.
Source: http://green.venturebeat.com/2009/11/09/new-saic-software-predicts-gridfailures-weeks-months-in-advance/
3. November 9, New Jersey Herald – (New Jersey) 15 people evacuated in Franklin due
to propane leak. A gas leak at Precision Propane on Church Street led to the
evacuation of 15 people Monday evening, and emergency management workers
investigated late into the night to clear the area. A resident flagged down a police car
for the pervasive propane smell just before 7 p.m., and police and emergency
management workers quickly shut off the main gas pipes to the business, according to
the borough’s emergency management coordinator. Families living in the immediate
vicinity, totaling 13 adults and two children, were quickly evacuated. They were
allowed back into their homes shortly after 11 p.m. Roadblocks at Franklin Avenue and
Cork Hill Road were set up by police to divert traffic away from the scene. Shortly
after 10 p.m. the emergency workers were still checking all the massive tanks on the
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Precision premises, searching for the source of the leak. Fire Departments and
Emergency Medical Squads from Franklin, Ogdensburg, Hamburg, and Hardyston all
pitched in. Strangely enough, the emergency management personnel had conducted
training exercises at Precision Propane on Saturday, and were particularly prepared for
their response, according to the coordinator “The timing is impeccable,” he said.
Source: http://www.njherald.com/story/news/evacuation2009-11-09T19-28-52
For more stories, see items 21 and 24
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Chemical Industry Sector
4. November 9, WLWT 5 Cincinnati – (Ohio) Chief: Acid, old military Ordinance led to
Rozzi’s explosion. The Loveland, Ohio fire chief said something workers from Rozzi’s
Fireworks did not know was under their feet was partly to blame for an explosion that
injured two workers Friday. The chief said that workers were using a Bobcat in an old
barn on the property when the Bobcat knocked over a container of picric acid. The
chief said the acid soaked into and under the floor of the barn, where it reacted with
some sort of old military ordnance, causing the blast. The workers had no idea there
were explosives under the barn, according to the chief. Bomb squads removed the
unexploded ordnance and took it away to be detonated at another site. The injured
workers have been released from the hospital.
Source: http://www.wlwt.com/news/21562690/detail.html
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Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste Sector
5. November 10, Rutland Herald – (Vermont) NRC cites Entergy for inspection
violation. Entergy Nuclear’s problem-plagued cooling towers have again been cited by
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, this time for a low-level safety violation of the
towers’ inspection program. A recent federal inspection of the Vermont Yankee nuclear
reactor revealed the low-level safety violation, which involves the inspection procedure
at the cooling towers, Entergy Nuclear announced late Monday. The problem earned
Entergy Nuclear a “green” finding from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the
lowest level of safety problems. The highest is red. Vermont Yankee’s cooling towers
have been the source of numerous problems at the Vernon reactor during the past two
years, including the partial collapse of a portion of one of the towers in August 2007,
and repeated problems in the summer of 2008. According to a press release from
Entergy, the violation dealt with “procedure compliance” and the company was found
in violation for not entering cooling tower inspection results into the corrective action
program in a timely manner, according to an Entergy spokesman. Entergy Nuclear has
been replacing portions of the wooden cooling towers, and according to the spokesman,
the upgrade is now two-thirds complete.
Source: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20091110/THISJUSTIN/911100333
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6. November 10, Associated Press – (Nevada) State panel to get nuclear waste
repository update. Three new Nuclear Projects Commission members are due to hear
Nevada’s top anti-Yucca Mountain official outline efforts to stop a national nuclear
waste dump from being built in Nevada. The Nevada nuclear projects chief and
commission Chairman are set Tuesday to welcome the three new members to the
commission at Las Vegas City Hall. The three were named to the seven-member panel
last month by the Nevada Governor. The Nevada nuclear projects chief and the panel
lead state efforts to stop the Energy Department from burying the nation’s spent nuclear
reactor fuel 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Officials say Nevada has to keep fighting
until the government pulls its licensing application or the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission denies it.
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_13753484
For another story, see item 29
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Critical Manufacturing Sector
7. November 10, Mid-Hudson News – (New York; New Jersey) Brooklyn contractor
cited for electrocution and fall hazards at Westchester County worksite. The U.S.
Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has
proposed $50,600 in fines against Metro Steel Fabricators Inc., a Brooklyn steel
erection contractor, for alleged willful and serious violations of safety standards at a
Tuckahoe, New Jersey, jobsite. OSHA’s inspection found that workers at the Elm St.
worksite were exposed to electrocution hazards while working within 10 feet of
energized high-voltage power and service lines, while workers who were connecting
steel beams without fall protection were exposed to falls of three stories. The inspection
also found that Metro Steel Fabricators was erecting steel without first receiving
written verification that concrete footings were of sufficient strength to support the
loads; a roadway work zone was improperly set up and lacked warning signs to tell
motorists of a flagger and a crane in the roadway; and additional fall hazards stemmed
from lack of perimeter safety cables and use of an incomplete stairway for access.
OSHA has issued Metro Steel Fabricators one willful citation, with a proposed fine of
$35,000, for the electrocution hazard and seven serious citations, with $15,600 in fines,
for the remaining items. OSHA defines a willful violation as one committed with plain
indifference to or intentional disregard of employee safety and health. Serious citations
are issued when death or serious physical harm is likely to result from hazards about
which the employer knew or should have known.
Source:
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2009/November09/10/MetroSteel_OSHA10Nov09.html
8. November 9, Tampa Tribune – (Florida) Alafia blaze under control, but phosphate
pits challenge firefighters. Firefighters have contained a brush fire in the Alafia River
area, even though they were stymied by the unreclaimed phosphate mine landscape of
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steep hills and deep gullies. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue and Florida Division of
Forestry firefighters remain on the scene the morning of November 9. On November 8,
the fire burned more than 500 acres of difficult-to-access terrain in the Alafia River
State Park. “There were two separate fires about a half-mile apart, all in the state park
area,” a Fire Rescue spokesman said on November 9. “It is 100 percent contained right
now, though there will still be some smoldering.” Efforts were hampered by the deep
phosphate pits left by a mine that operated in the area years ago. “The unreclaimed land
has unique topography that offers some of the most radical elevation changes in
Florida,” said a fire rescue news release issued Sunday night. No structures were in
danger and overnight campers were not in harm’s way. No one was injured. Rainy
weather approaching the Tampa Bay area, expected today and Tuesday, will help douse
the hot spots.
Source: http://southshore2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/09/alafia-blaze-under-controlphosphate-pits-challeng/
9. November 8, Reuters – (National) Probe finds jump in runaway Toyota complaints:
report. Over 1,000 Toyota and Lexus owners have reported sudden, spontaneous
acceleration of their vehicles since 2001, including crashes blamed for 19 deaths, far
more than earlier disclosed, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday. The National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) previously has said it had received
reports of 100 such incidents, including 17 crashes and five fatalities. Toyota Motor
Corp announced in September that it would recall some 3.8 million vehicles in the
United States because of the risk of improper-fitting floormats jamming accelerator
pedals in several models. The recall includes the hot-selling Prius hybrid and would be
the largest ever for Toyota, which has built a reputation for safety and quality that had
helped it surpass General Motors Co as the world’s leading automaker last year. But the
Times said it had uncovered a problem much bigger in scope from its own examination
of thousands of federal defect investigation records, NHTSA complaints filed by car
owners, lawsuits against Toyota and reports by independent safety experts and local
police agencies. Owner complaints of runaway Toyota and Lexus vehicles helped
trigger at least eight investigations of the problem by NHTSA in the last seven years,
but the agency closed six of those cases without finding a defect, the Times reported.
According to the newspaper, federal officials eliminated broad categories of suddenacceleration complaints, including cases in which drivers said they were unable to stop
runaway cars using their brakes; incidents of unintended acceleration lasting more than
a few seconds; and reports in which owners did not identify the possible causes of the
problem. By its own count, the newspaper said it found more than 1,000 reports from
motorists that their Toyota or Lexus vehicles had suddenly sped up on their own, and
records of 19 fatalities in which unintended acceleration may have been a factor in
vehicles going back to the 2002 model year.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5A809E20091109
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Defense Industrial Base Sector
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10. November 9, Defense News – (National) Carter: Plan afoot to halt F-35 cost hikes,
delays. U.S. defense officials expect to finalize by late November a plan to avoid new
F-35 cost increases and schedule slips that have been forecast by a Pentagon analysis
cell, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics said
Monday. In an exclusive interview at the Pentagon, he confirmed reports that a
Pentagon “joint estimate team” (JET) has determined current program plans would
spawn sizeable cost growth and schedule delays after completing an annual review of
the triservice, international fighter program. “The JET II study shows both some cost
increases and schedule slips, which we should do everything we can to avoid,” he said.
“Those are forecasts which say what will happen if we don’t change what we’re doing.
And we should change what we’re doing so that those predictions don’t come fully to
pass.” During the next few weeks, defense acquisition and program officials will weigh
a number of options and ultimately put in place a plan designed to steer the fighter
initiative away from the JET-predicted trouble. The Undersecretary said he has
scheduled a “major” weekend meeting on the F-35 program on November 21 and 22. “I
would like to have a management plan by then that tells us where we are and how we
can improve the performance of this important program,” he said. Defense officials are
examining a number of “management tools” they will use to build the new management
plan. When asked which options are on the table, he pointed to one: altering the F-35
flight test program. Officials are seeking “to determine ways in which the flight test
program can be accomplished in a shorter period of time than the JET II estimates
without affecting other parts of the program or increasing overall program costs,” the
acquisition chief said.
Source: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4367942&c=AME&s=AIR
11. November 9, Cleantech Group – (National) U.S. Army tests Quantum’s new hybriddiesel vehicles in special ops. Irvine, California-based Quantum Fuel Systems
Technologies Worldwide said on November 9 it has shipped six of its newest dieselhybrid vehicles to the U.S. Army. The Clandestine Extended Range Vehicle (CERV) is
silent when running on batteries and can maintain a speed of 80 miles per hour,
Quantum says. The CERV is expected to be used in quick-paced special operations
missions involving reconnaissance, surveillance, and targeting. Quantum signed a
$4.88 million contract with the Army in 2007 to test, deliver and demonstrate the
CERVs, which were then dubbed Aggressor II. Quantum previously developed the
Aggressor, a hybrid fuel cell vehicle, for the U.S. military. The director of drive
systems engineering for Quantum, told the Cleantech Group the contract is winding
down now that all the vehicles have been delivered, but the company hopes to secure
additional military orders for the CERV. The CERV was built on a specially made
lightweight chassis. The CERV uses Quantum’s proprietary Q-Force technology, an
all-wheel-drive diesel hybrid electric powertrain that the company unveiled last month
after six years in development.
Source: http://cleantech.com/news/5277/quantum-qtww-hybrid-diesel-army-vehicle
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Banking and Finance Sector
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12. November 10, DarkReading – (National) MassMutual warns Of data breach. A leak
at a third-party service provider may have caused a compromise of employee and
customer data at insurance giant MassMutual, the company says. According to news
reports, former employees are being notified of a breach that may affect the personal
information of family members, as well. “MassMutual can confirm that, despite
comprehensive procedures and diligent practices to protect confidential and private
data concerning employees at MassMutual and several of its subsidiaries, a limited
amount of personal employee information maintained in a database by an outside
vendor (engaged by the company) may have been subject to unauthorized access,” said
a spokesman, in a statement from MassMutual. “However, the vendor engaged a highly
respected forensics team to investigate, and at this time we believe that no misuse of
the information or fraudulent activity involving the data has occurred. This database
does not include any client or field representative information of any type; it also did
not contain personal Social Security or bank account information. The company did not
say which databases were affected by the breach or how they were compromised.
Source:
http://www.darkreading.com/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221600945
&subSection=Attacks/breaches
13. November 10, Bloomberg – (National) Dodd proposes stripping Fed, FDIC of bank
regulation roles. A U.S. senator proposed legislation to create a single U.S. regulator
that would strip the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. of banksupervision authority. The senator who is also chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee, would eliminate the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and
the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and fold the Treasury Department units into the
new bank regulator, according to a draft of the measure obtained by Bloomberg News.
The senator is scheduled to release the plan on November 10 in Washington. The
senator has faulted the U.S. bank regulation system, saying it encourages charter
shopping and a “race to the bottom” by agencies to win oversight roles. His proposal
goes further than proposals by the U.S. President and the House financial services
committee chairman to merge the OTS and OCC.
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aqVvr9UKcubg
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Transportation Sector
14. November 10, Washington Examiner – (District of Columbia; Maryland; Virginia)
Metro, oversight group close to deal on track inspections. Metro and the group
charged with overseeing the transit system said they are resolving a dispute on when
and how train tracks can be inspected. The transit agency would not let the Tri-State
Oversight Committee inspect its tracks during train operation because of safety
concerns, according to The Washington Post. A Metro spokeswoman acknowledged
the two sides had exchanged letters over when inspectors could access tracks. But she
told The Examiner that a verbal agreement had been reached and the inspectors are
welcome to inspect any tracks at any time as long as they have safety training and are
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accompanied by a safety escort. The chairman of the Tri-State Oversight Committee,
told The Examiner that the group and Metro were “close to resolving this issue by
developing a formal policy.” The rift over the inspections is the latest example of the
frustrations by the little-known oversight group that lacks any real teeth to regulate
Metro.
Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Metro_-oversight-group-close-todeal-on-track-inspections-8509213-69616157.html
15. November 10, WKMJ 105.9 San Francisco – (California) Warnings improved after
fatal Bay Bridge crash. Caltrans is taking steps to improve the safety of a stretch of
the Bay Bridge that has seen more than 40 accidents since it opened in September,
including a fatal accident on Monday. A truck driver from Hayward died on Monday
after he lost control on the bridge’s temporary “S”curve and plunged 200-feet below.
The CHP says excessive speed was to blame for the crash. In response, Caltrans plans
to install a sign that shows drivers how fast they are going. The speed limit on the
temporary span drops from 50 miles per hour to 35 miles per hour.
Source: http://www.kmjnow.com/pages/landing_news?Warnings-Improved-AfterFatal-Bay-Bridge=1&blockID=88851&feedID=806
16. November 8, New Haven Register – (New York) Part of engine falls of Delta jet after
takeoff. An engine tailcone fell off a Delta Air Lines jet shortly after takeoff Thursday
and plummeted thousands of feet before landing harmlessly on a lawn in a Long Island
residential neighborhood. Apparently, neither the pilots nor anyone on the ground
immediately noticed the mishap when it happened. The aircraft, a Boeing 777, does not
need the part to fly and carried on safely to its destination, Tokyo, aviation officials
said. Delta personnel reported the engine part missing following an inspection after the
plane landed following its 14-hour flight, a Federal Aviation Administration
spokeswoman said. The 20-pound cone, measuring 4 feet long, and 3 feet in diameter at
its widest spot, was big enough to kill someone if it hit them from a great height. It was
on the lawn of a home in Roosevelt for several hours before anyone called police. The
house is about 9 1/2 miles east of Kennedy International Airport, where the flight
originated. A Delta spokesman said an investigation is under way to determine what
went wrong. He said he was unaware of any similar problems involving Boeing 777s in
Delta’s fleet. A Boeing spokeswoman said she had no information about the accident.
A similar mishap involving a tailcone dropping off a Boeing 777 in mid-flight was
reported in Japanese newspapers in 2005.
Source: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/11/08/news/a12-partfallsoff.txt
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Postal and Shipping Sector
17. November 10, NY1 News – (International) Police: Suspicious Powder Found At
Fourth Consulate. A day after suspicious white powder was sent to three foreign
consulates in Manhattan, something similar has been found at the German consulate
today. The Police Commissioner has acknowledged the latest incident and is expected
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to talk about it later today. Federal agents in the Joint Terrorism Task Force are still
investigating after what happened yesterday. Field tests done on the substance sent to
the Uzbekistan, French, and Austrian Consulates came back negative for anthrax, but
more test results from the Department of Health have yet to come back. All three
envelopes containing the powder and letters had postmarks from Dallas, Texas. The
notes addressed to the Uzbekistan and Austrian Consulates mentioned al-Qaida, the
FBI and America. The potential threat led to a massive response from the FBI, New
York Police Department and the Fire Department’s Hazardous Materials team.
Decontamination tents were set up outside the French mission on East 47th Street.
Employees who came in contact with the envelopes were decontaminated at the scene.
Source: http://ny1.com/5-manhattan-news-content/top_stories/108707/police-suspicious-powder-found-at-fourth-consulate
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Agriculture and Food Sector
18. November 10, Associated Press – (New York) 8 taken to NY hospitals after carbon
monoxide leak. Nassau County police say eight people who fell ill from carbon
monoxide poisoning at a Plainview restaurant have been taken to area hospitals with
apparently non-life-threatening symptoms. Police say Ayhan’s Shish-Kebab
Mediterranean Restaurant was evacuated Monday night after it was reported that
multiple people at the eatery had passed out. According to police, the gas in the
restaurant was shut off. The source of the leak has not yet been determined. Police say
the eight who received hospital treatment were taken to Nassau University Medical
Center, and North Shore University hospitals in Syosset and Plainview. Three others
also sustained carbon monoxide poisoning at the restaurant, but refused medical
attention.
Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/8-taken-to-ny-hospitals-after-carbonmonoxide-leak-1.1577310
19. November 10, KTGM 7 Guam – (Guam) BioSecurity Task Force formed to combat
invasive species. It is the first of its kind in the nation, an Interagency Biosecurity Task
Force. Its purpose is to combat the growing number of foreign species that have entered
Guam and damaged it’s plant and animal life. For generations Guam has been a crossroads in the pacific because of its strategic position for the U.S. military and as a
destination for tourists from throughout Asia. But the multitude of travelers and cargo
that have come through our island have left behind some unwelcome flora and fauna.
The Interagency Biosecurity Task Force was formed to combat them. It brings together
the efforts of the Guam Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Inspection Service and Guam Customs. The
aim is to control or eliminate the invasive species that are here and prevent others from
getting in.
Source:
http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=
1531:asd&catid=50:homepage-slideshow-rokstories
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20. November 10, Raleigh News and Observor – (North Carolina) Sickening substance
remains a mystery. Raleigh’s fire marshal said Monday that a hazardous material team
could not pinpoint the irritating substance that sent six people to the hospital and
sickened about two dozen more at a McDonald’s restaurant in Knightdale over the
weekend. A fire marshal said the culprit may have been pepper spray or ammonia that
someone either accidentally or intentionally released into the fast food restaurant’s
ventilation system late Sunday morning; it would have circulated throughout the
restaurant. “There was the suggestion that a chemical repellent had been released in the
bathroom,” the fire marshal said. More than 30 customers and employees were
evacuated, complaining of burning sensations in their noses and eyes. Thirty-one
people, including customers and employees, were treated by emergency medical
personnel, said the district chief for Wake County EMS. The Raleigh hazmat team
investigated several potential causes.
Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/183706.html
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Water Sector
21. November 10, St. Petersburg Times – (Florida) Power outage knocks out Tampa Bay
Water’s desal plant. A weekend power outage in Apollo Beach shut down Tampa Bay
Water’s desalination plant. But the problem caused more than a few flickering lights.
The outage created what’s called a “water hammer,” a surge that sends water through
pipes at increased pressure. The surge caused “a few pipe leaks,” according to a utility
spokeswoman. As of Monday, the plant was still offline. The spokeswoman said
restarting the plant takes 13 hours, so it should be back producing water by November
10. The surge was so strong because the plant was running above its 25 million-gallona-day capacity when the power outage occurred, she said. The reason dates to the
recent spring water shortage, when the utility’s reservoir went dry and it violated its
groundwater pumping permit with the Southwest Florida Water Management District,
better known as Swiftmud. The utility is under orders from Swiftmud to lower its
pumping from the area’s well fields to below 90 million gallons a day by December 31,
she said.
Source: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/power-outage-knocks-outdesal-plant/1050568
22. November 10, KY3 Springfield – (Missouri) Branson installs new alarms to try to
curb huge sewage spills. The City of Branson, Missouri, has fixed a malfunction in a
lift station to try to prevent another spill like the one last week that let 12,000 gallons of
sewage flow into Fall Creek. New battery backup, monitoring, and control components
have been installed to provide additional assurance of alarm reliability in the event of
electrical failure. The lift station along Fall Creek Road lost pump control power early
last Wednesday morning, resulting in the wastewater overflowing into a tributary of
Fall Creek, which runs into Lake Taneycomo. Branson Public Works officials
contacted the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) about the spill through
standard operating procedures. Water samples were collected by city personnel from
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the stream below the station to be analyzed for contaminates. No damage to aquatic life
was noticeable at the time of, or after the spill. However, official results of the city’s
water samples, which are sent to a private lab, will not be known until later this week.
A DNR investigator has been on site and was fully informed how the spill occurred and
how the city is responding. Public Works officials also outlined to the inspector the
extensive upgrades that have been implemented to provide additional protection of
alarm circuits to prevent future spills. Branson Public Works says the situation is under
control and the lift station is functioning normally.
Source: http://www.ky3.com/news/local/69607572.html
23. November 9, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – (National) John Wieland
Homes agrees to Clean Water Act settlement Company will pay $350,000 penalty
and upgrade environmental programs. John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods
Inc., and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods of the Carolinas Inc., based in
Atlanta, Georgia, have agreed to pay a $350,000 civil penalty to resolve alleged
violations of the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) announced on November 9. The companies have also agreed
to implement company-wide storm water compliance programs at their construction
sites that go beyond current regulatory requirements. EPA estimates that the agreement
will keep approximately 37 million pounds of sediment from polluting the nation’s
waterways each year. Along with the federal government, the state of Tennessee has
joined the settlement. The state will receive a portion of the penalties based on the
number of sites located within the state. The government complaint alleges a common
pattern of violations that was discovered by reviewing documentation submitted by the
companies and through federal site inspections. The alleged violations include not
obtaining permits until after construction had begun or failing to obtain the required
permits at all. At the sites that did have permits, violations included failure to prevent
or minimize the discharge of pollutants, such as silt and debris, in storm water runoff.
This settlement is the latest in a series of enforcement actions to address storm water
violations from construction sites around the country. Similar consent decrees have
been reached with companies like Home Depot and multiple home building companies.
Source:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/314C65C7A62095B285257669005E9D2F
24. November 9, Water Technology Online – (New York) New concern in Marcellus
Shale: radioactivity. The wastewater from gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale has been
found to be radioactive, the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (DEC) has found, according to a November 9 report from investigative
news organization ProPublica. This news comes as the state readies for a massive
expansion of gas drilling in the part of upstate New York that contains the multi-state
Marcellus Shale underground rock formation. The state has yet to say how it will
handle the radioactive wastewater, the report said, noting that the discovery was made
during a DEC analysis of 13 samples of wastewater brought thousands of feet to the
surface from the drilling process. The DEC “found that they contain levels of radium226, a derivative of uranium, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the
environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink,” ProPublica
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reported. The report said further, “The findings, if backed up with more tests, have
several implications: The energy industry would likely face stiffer regulations and
expenses, and have more trouble finding treatment plants to accept its waste — if any
would at all. Companies would need to license their waste handlers and test their
workers for radioactive exposure, and possibly ship waste across the country. And the
state would have to sort out how its laws for radioactive waste might apply to drilling
and how the waste could impact water supplies and the environment.” How the
radioactive wastewater affects human health is another concern, according to the report.
Source: http://watertechonline.com/news.asp?N_ID=72914
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Public Health and Healthcare Sector
25. November 10, Charlotte Observer – (North Carolina) Mental patients stuck in
emergency rooms for days. Across North Carolina, mental patients are routinely
languishing for days in emergency rooms ill-equipped to care for them, waiting for a
bed to open at one of four state-run psychiatric hospitals. Often, they pass the time
handcuffed or sedated. Law-enforcement officers assigned to guard patients at
community medical centers such as Grace Hospital in Morganton have occasionally
resorted to using Tasers to shock them into submission. The state’s secretary of health
and human services plans to ease the strain by paying private hospitals with taxpayer
money to admit and treat more mental patients, especially those who do not qualify for
Medicaid. But a survey the department conducted of nine community hospitals raises
questions about whether many medical facilities, especially those in rural areas, are
capable of taking on that responsibility. The report also provides recommendations for
what the state can do to help, such as assigning a single staff member to work on
admitting patients who have been waiting in an emergency room for more than three
days. Those recommendations, as well as a one-page summary of the problems found
by the survey, will eventually be presented to senior DHHS administrators.
Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/1047123.html
26. November 9, KIITV 3 South Texas – (Texas) Old hospital records out in open In
abandoned building. A local news station found hundreds of private medical records
with personal information left out in the open in Alice, Texas. Alice Regional Hospital
has been shut down for years. After city leaders were informed about the hospital, they
sent an officer over to make sure the location was secure. The city will now require that
the owners keep the hospital secured.
Source: http://www.kiiitv.com/news/local/69615497.html
27. November 9, Lehigh Valley Live – (New Jersey) Portion of Hunterdon Medical
Center evacuated due to gas leak. Officials this morning evacuated a portion of
Hunterdon Medical Center for precautionary reasons because of a gas leak from a line
outside the building, police said. Raritan Township, New Jersey, police were called
shortly after 10 o’clock to the hospital because of an odor of natural gas. Authorities
evacuated the lower floor of the hospital’s southern wing — that’s where the doctors’
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offices are — while they searched for the cause of the odor. In all, about 50 people
including office staff and awaiting patients were affected, a police official said.
Elizabethtown Gas shut the gas supply to that wing of the building and the Raritan
Township Fire Department helped search for the source, police said
Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/hunterdon-county/expresstimes/index.ssf/2009/11/portion_of_hunterdon_medical_c.html
28. November 9, Los Angeles Times – (California) Cedars says 260 patients exposed to
high doses of radiation, 20% could face eye damage. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
announced today that 260 patients were exposed to high doses of radiation during CT
brain scans, up from the hospital’s original estimate of 206 in September. The
hospital’s review also found that about 20 percent of the affected patients had exposure
directly to their lenses, which could put them at a higher risk of developing cataracts,
said a Cedars spokeswoman. The hospital sent letters to the affected patients Monday.
Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/cedars-says-260-patientsexposed-to-high-doses-of-radiation-20-could-face-possible-eye-damage.html
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Government Facilities Sector
29. November 9, Mid Columbia Tri-City Herald – (Washington) Board says to empty
tanks more quickly. More aggressive deadlines for emptying radioactive waste from
leakprone underground tanks should be included in a proposed settlement agreement,
the Hanford Advisory Board says. That was one of several recommendations the board
made last week concerning a proposed agreement between the Department of Energy
(DOE) and the state of Washington that would end a lawsuit brought by the state. The
board continues its opposition to further consideration of bulk vitrification for
supplemental treatment of low activity radioactive waste. It also continues to press for
the start of treatment of low activity waste at the main vitrification plant under
construction, the Waste Treatment Plant, before the entire plant is ready to operate. In
addition the board earlier had advised that a cost and schedule outlook for remaining
environmental cleanup work be completed before the state agreed to changes in legal
deadlines. But when members were asked if that was a deal breaker for them, they said
no. “By the grace of God we got the consent decree,” said the director of the Hanford
Communities. “Let’s get on with that.” The consent decree, part of the proposed
settlement agreement, would make some cleanup deadlines enforceable by a federal
judge without the state having to depend on issuing fines or filing a new court case.
Longer-term deadlines would be included in the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement.
The state filed a lawsuit after DOE fell years behind schedule to empty underground
tanks of radioactive waste and treat the waste for permanent disposal. Among the many
new deadlines in the proposed settlement are extending the deadline for emptying all
149 leakprone older tanks from 2018 to 2040 and extending the deadline for start of
operations of the vitrification plant to treat the waste from 2011 to 2019.
Source: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/yahoonews/story/786104.html
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30. November 9, Cape Cod Times – (Massachusetts) Suspicious package investigated at
Cape base. State police and military explosive experts have responded to a report of a
suspicious package found at the base this morning, officials from the base and the state
fire marshal’s office said. The package was found by security at 7:45 a.m. in a
dumpster at the Coast Guard recycling center at the base, a Coast Guard spokeswoman
said. The center is not located near the residential area of the base, said a National
Guard spokeswoman. It is also a safe distance from the base boundaries with the four
Upper Cape communities, she said. “It is well inside the base,” she said.
Source:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091109suspicious_package_invest
igated_at_cape_base/srvc=home&position=recent
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Emergency Services Sector
31. November 10, KVAL 13 Eugene – (Oregon) Police station vandalized: ‘It’s the
police, you don’t do that’. Vandals smashed the plane glass windows in the Eugene
Police Department’s Monroe Street Station Thursday night or early Friday morning. A
police van and a parole and probation car in the parking lot were also damaged, but
civilian cars in the area were unharmed, prompting police to believe law enforcement
was the target of the attack.
Source: http://www.kval.com/news/69425767.html
32. November 10, Denver Post – (Colorado) Hospital helicopter makes emergency
landing in Adams County. A North Colorado Medical Center helicopter made an
emergency landing in eastern Adams County on Monday night. The three-person crew
and the patient were not injured. The flight was transporting a patient from northeastern
Colorado to a Denver hospital when an emergency light came on, said a North
Colorado Medical Center spokesman. The pilot began to land the aircraft about 10
miles northeast of Strasburg, but about 10 feet from the ground, the engine stalled. The
pilot was able to land the chopper safely, and the aircraft did not appear to sustain
damage from the landing, he said. The helicopter is one of two affiliated with the
Greeley hospital, but it is owned and operated by Med-Trans of Dallas.
Source: http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_13751959
33. November 9, KCBA 35 Monterey – (California) Gilroy firefighters say less
firefighters per engine can affect service. Budget problems lead to a brownout for a
local fire department. Starting this month, Gilroy’s Sunrise fire station will be shut
down three weeks a month to offset losses because of the city’s budget crisis. Now
there is a new idea to save even more money that has firefighters concerned for their
safety. One city council member wants to remove the requirement to temporarily close
the station if one of their members is out. He sent an email to all council members that
states that he wants to negotiate with the fire union in the next council meeting and
“Allow all three station to operate with a minimum of three fire personnel at any time.”
The Secretary for the Gilroy Fire Fighters Association says lowering firefighters per
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engine is risky for them and the community.
Source: http://www.kcba.com/Global/story.asp?S=11466641
34. November 9, WFMY 2 Greensboro – (North Carolina) Duke Life Flight helicopter
downed by bird. A medical helicopter for Duke University Medical Center was
removed from a Caswell County family’s yard Monday afternoon. The helicopter was
transporting a patient when it was hit by a buzzard. The bird strike damaged the tail of
the aircraft, forcing the pilot to land in the yard. The homeowner learned of the
emergency landing while she was at church. An ambulance drove the patient to meet a
University of North Carolina Air Care helicopter, which transported him to Duke
University Medical Center. Nobody was injured by the bird strike and the chopper will
be taken to Alabama for repairs.
Source: http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=132875&catid=57
For another story, see item 1
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Information Technology Sector
35. November 10, The Register – (International) Security firm chokes sprawling spam
botnet. A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world’s spam
has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye.
After carefully analyzing the massive botnet, alternately known as Mega-D and Ozdok,
FireEye employees last week launched a coordinated blitz on dozens of its command
and control channels. The channels were used to send new spamming instructions to
the legions of zombie machines that make up the network. Almost immediately, the
spam stopped, according to M86 Security blog. Last year, the email security firm
estimated the botnet was the leading source of spam until some of its servers were
disabled. The body blow is good news to ISPs that are forced to choke on the torrent of
spam sent out by the pesky botnet. But because many email servers already deployed
blacklists that filtered emails sent from IP addresses known to be used by Ozdok, end
users may not notice much of a change, said an abuse operations manager at antispam
firm Cloudmark. The takedown effort is significant because it shows that a relatively
small company can defeat a for-profit network that took extraordinary measures to
ensure it remained operational. Not only did Ozdok reserve a long list of domain names
as command and control channels, it also used hard-coded DNS servers. When all else
failed, its software was able to dynamically generate new domain names on the fly.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/fireeye_takes_out_ozdok/
36. November 10, The Register – (International) Next generation spammers rise up in
Asia, India and Brazil. A new generation of spammers is rising up in regions such as
Asia Pacific, Japan, and South America, and beginning to outstrip their North
American counterparts in junk mail output. Asia Pacific and South America accounted
for 23 percent and 22 percent, respectively, of global spam during October. That’s
according to a new study on spam by Symantec, published on November 9, which
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concludes that 87 per cent of email messages are now made up of junk mail. Europe,
the Middle East, and Africa still accounts for 28 per cent of spam and North America
for 20 per cent of this junk mail deluge. The figures contrast with Symantec’s stats
from February 2008 when Europe was blamed for 44 per cent of all spam, with a
reported 35.1 per cent originating in North America. Symantec said the availability of
high-speed broadband connections in countries such as Japan, South Korea and Brazil
partly explains the change in global spamming. Brazil (14 per cent), Vietnam (five per
cent) and India (5 per cent) now come second, third and fourth place, respectively, in
the league of most spamming country. The U.S. (18 per cent October - down from 25
per cent in September) remains the single biggest source of junk mail, though Brazil
will easily overtake it in November if current trends continue.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/spam_shake_up_symantec/
37. November 9, DarkReading – (International) Microsoft forensics tool for law
enforcement leaked online. A forensics tool built by Microsoft exclusively for law
enforcement officials worldwide was posted to a file-sharing site, leaving the USBbased tool at risk of falling into the wrong hands. COFEE is a free, USB-based set of
tools, which Microsoft offers only to law enforcement, that plugs into a computer to
gather evidence during an investigation. It lets an officer with little or no computer
know-how use digital forensics tools to gather volatile evidence. COFEE was posted,
and then later removed, from at least one file-sharing site, but security experts say the
cat is now out of the bag. While many forensics tools with similar functionality as
Microsoft’s Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) are available,
security experts still worry the bad guys will use their access to the tool to figure out
ways to circumvent it. The CTO at Veracode, says the danger is that a detection tool
will be written for COFEE so that the bad guys can cover their tracks. “Someone will
build a detector so that machines will wipe themselves or give rootkit-like fake answers
if this USB is inserted into a computer,” he said. One researcher who got a copy of
COFEE online says bad guys could abuse the tool by taking one of its Dynamic Link
Libraries (DLL) and loading it into a compromised machine’s memory, where it then
dumps stored clear-text passwords to a file.
Source:
http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2216
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38. November 9, ComputerWorld – (International) Apple delivers mammoth update,
patches 58 bugs. Apple patched 58 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating systems on
November 10, the most since May 2009, including several in the QuickTime media
player that it had fixed separately in early September. Apple apparently also retired
Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, from security support; none of the patches affect that
operating system, which debuted in April 2005. Apple traditionally stops providing
security updates for its oldest still-supported OS several months after the release of a
new edition. The November 10 security update was the sixth from Apple this year, and
the second that included patches for Snow Leopard, launched in late August. “Seems a
little large, but really, it’s par for the course for Apple,” said the director of security
operations at nCircle Network Security, referring to the number of individual bugs
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quashed in today’s 2009-006 update. In May, Apple patched a record 67
vulnerabilities; it addressed 55 in February, 33 in September, and 19 in two separate
August updates. More than half of the vulnerabilities patched on November 10, 32 out
of the 58, were accompanied by the phrase “may lead to arbitrary code execution,”
which is Apple’s way of saying that a flaw was critical and could be used by attackers
to hijack a Mac. Apple does not assign ratings or severity scores to the bugs it patches,
unlike other major software makers, such as Microsoft and Oracle. Apple plugged
holes in 37 different components of Mac OS X, ranging from AFP Client and the opensource Apache Web server software to CoreGraphics, the Help Viewer and the
Spotlight desktop search engine.
Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140596/Apple_delivers_mammoth_update_
patches_58_bugs
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Commercial Facilities Sector
39. November 9, Wenatchee World – (Washington) Homemade bomb found at Salvation
Army store. A homemade bomb inside a large appliance was found outside of the
Salvation Army Corps thrift store at about 4:40 p.m. today. Wenatchee police shut
down the 1500 block of North Miller Avenue and called for a bomb squad from
Marysville to disarm the device, according to a police sergeant. The bomb was inside a
large appliance and left near the side of the building where donations are accepted, she
said. She said she did not know what kind of large appliance was found, but it was
about the size of a washer or dryer. An employee brought the appliance inside the store
and found the bomb. She added the bomb materials included a PVC pipe loaded with
nails, a fuse and an M-80 explosive. The man who found it told police he thought the
fuse looked as if someone tried to light it. Police immediately evacuated about 20 to 30
customers and staff. Police have no suspects at this point.
Source: http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/nov/09/homemade-bomb-foundat-salvation-army-store/
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40. November 7, WGN 9 Chicago – (Illinois) Suburban ice rink evacuated due to
fumes. Hundreds of people attending a teen hockey tournament were evacuated from a
west suburban ice rink because of a carbon monoxide leak, authorities said. Thirteen
people at Center Ice of DuPage were taken to area hospitals after they were
overwhelmed by carbon monoxide fumes, according to officials from the Glen Ellyn
Volunteer Fire Company. Another 29 were treated at the scene and released. None of
the injuries was considered serious. Several hundred people were inside the rink for a
teen ice hockey tournament, he said. After firefighters took high readings of carbon
monoxide, they evacuated the entire rink. A mass casualty incident trailer was called in
to treat the ill patients with oxygen and other medical equipment. Building engineers
were working to pinpoint the cause of the leak.
Source: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/11/suburban-ice-rink-evacuateddue-to-fumes.html
For more stories, see items 18 and 20
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National Monuments and Icons Sector
41. November 9, WJHG 7 Panama City – (Florida) 14 area state parks closed because of
Ida. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s northwest district offices
closed parks in Pensacola and Panama City and other state parks in between the two
cities along the coast due to the threat of Hurricane Ida. Fourteen state parks and one
aquatic preserve office are also closed until further notice due to imminent weather
conditions.
Source: http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/69604632.html
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Dams Sector
42. November 10, Associated Press – (South Carolina) Utility to test security response at
S.C. dam. Federal, state and local emergency officials are holding a drill simulating a
terrorist strike at a South Carolina dam. The simulation is being staged Tuesday by
Santee Cooper, the state electric utility, and law enforcement agencies at the Pinopolis
Dam near Moncks Corner. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports agencies from
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to the local fire department are
participating in the drill.
Source: http://www.thesunnews.com/575/story/1159056.html
43. November 10, Gainesville Times – (Georgia) Ida remnants brings heavy rain today,
tonight to North Georgia. Almost no water will be released from Lake Lanier over the
next few days as heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Ida hits Georgia, the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers said Monday. Rainfall from the tropical system today should be
heavy across North Georgia. A flash flood watch is in effect for most of Northeast
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Georgia, including Gainesville, until early Wednesday morning and 3-5 inches of rain
is likely, with heavier amounts possible locally. Across Northeast Georgia, officials are
bracing for the heavy rain, making sure culverts and other drainage systems aren’t
blocked. In Gainesville, school officials are working to ensure that leaky roofs on some
schools won’t be a disruption today.
Source: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/25784/
44. November 9, New Orleans Times-Picayune – (Louisiana) Water rising in London
Avenue Canal; corps could lower gates soon. Engineers said Monday morning they
were watching water from Lake Pontchartrain, in southeastern Louisiana, creep up the
floodwalls of the London Avenue Canal and were prepared to seal it off if the water
rose another few inches. With Hurricane Ida headed toward the mouth of the
Mississippi River, water in the canal stood at 2.2 feet above sea level and was slowly
rising, said a spokeswoman for the Army Corps of Engineers. The corps manages
drainage in the canal. At 2.5 feet above sea level, the corps will begin shutting the
canal’s gates, sealing out water from Lake Pontchartrain, she said. That will still allow
room for rain water pumped out of the city to climb another 2.5 feet up the floodwalls
before reaching five feet, which the corps does not want to exceed. Although flood
gates at the mouth of the canal may be closed, temporary pumps installed after
Hurricane Katrina will eject rainwater pulled from the city over the gates. The “safe
water” level in the London Avenue canal is lower than at the 17th Street and Orleans
Canals. As a result, the Corps spokeswoman said the agency does not anticipate having
to close the other two canals.
Source:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2009/11/corps_watching_water_slowly_ri.ht
ml
45. November 9, Houma Today – (Louisiana) Grand Isle levee breached by Ida’s surge
Monday. Grand Isle’s new flood protection levee was breached by storm surge early
Monday morning, according to the state Office of Emergency Preparedness. The Grand
Isle Mayor is reporting a 1,000 foot wash out in the new Grand Isle protection levee
caused by overtopping from Tropical Storm Ida’s surge. The levee, a $45 million
“burrito levee” constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane Gustav,
faces the Gulf of Mexico on the western end of the island. The levee was built on top of
a tube-like core of geotextile fabric filled with sand, aimed at better protecting the
island from storm waves. Wave heights were reaching 12 feet or more in the Gulf of
Mexico Monday, making repairs to the protection levee difficult, he said. The Grand
Isle Fire Chief said Monday night that water was beginning to come over La. 1 between
Port Fourchon and Grand Isle. Water was also beginning to flood low-lying areas of the
island, including behind Grand Isle Town Hall.
Source:
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20091109/HURBLOG/911099913?&tc=autorefres
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