pcray1231
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Suggesting a lie or coverup is over the top. How I read it is this:
- There was a fish kill in the Letort.
- There was an automatic monitoring alarm on the barracks water supply that triggered.
- The water supply and Letort are not supposed to be connected. Therefore, these are separate investigations. They could be connected. They may not be.
- Teams were dispatched to each, separately, to do more advanced testing to identify the hazard. By the time they got there, all appears to be fine with the water. Whatever it was, is gone. Neither investigation has figured out what the initial issue was yet.
So without answers, and a public demanding answers, they say the facts as they know them. Which are laid out above. We still don't know what caused the fish kill. We still don't know what caused the water alarm in the barracks. The two systems are not supposed to be connected and are thus being treated as separate incidents and separate investigations. You may think it's likely that they are connected, given similar times and places. And that's fine, you can think what you want. They can privately think that's likely as well. But without evidence that they are connected, authorities cannot make a claim that they are. Different authorities are investigating each, and this woman's job is to investigate the barracks issue, not the Letort. That's who the reporter interviewed, and that's her given task, so she quite rightly tells the reporter the Letort fish kill is being treated as separate and she's focusing on the barracks. And what she knows is that an alarm was triggered, and that alarm doesn't tell them exactly what was in the water. They suspected gas, but when they got there and did more testing, the water seems to be fine. They are checking their monitoring system, and trying to figure it out.
If I had to guess. Purely a guess, nothing more. I'd guess that an underground gas pocket burst and came up through the rock and soil in that area. Probably methane, but could be radon or something as well. Natural phenomena, drilling related? I dunno. But pressurized gas got into the underground pipes as well as a spring in the area, and caused both. Upon reaching the surface it bubbled out of the water quickly and was gone before any further testing could identify it. And any investigation looking for a surface related pollution incident is doomed to fail. Best hope of seeing it would be seismic signals, as it likely caused minor tremors. But, in a populated area like that, on a near surface tremor, it'd be hard to separate any signal from the noise of things like trucks driving by.
I say that because I'm not involved and allowed to speculate. The investigators don't have that luxury.
- There was a fish kill in the Letort.
- There was an automatic monitoring alarm on the barracks water supply that triggered.
- The water supply and Letort are not supposed to be connected. Therefore, these are separate investigations. They could be connected. They may not be.
- Teams were dispatched to each, separately, to do more advanced testing to identify the hazard. By the time they got there, all appears to be fine with the water. Whatever it was, is gone. Neither investigation has figured out what the initial issue was yet.
So without answers, and a public demanding answers, they say the facts as they know them. Which are laid out above. We still don't know what caused the fish kill. We still don't know what caused the water alarm in the barracks. The two systems are not supposed to be connected and are thus being treated as separate incidents and separate investigations. You may think it's likely that they are connected, given similar times and places. And that's fine, you can think what you want. They can privately think that's likely as well. But without evidence that they are connected, authorities cannot make a claim that they are. Different authorities are investigating each, and this woman's job is to investigate the barracks issue, not the Letort. That's who the reporter interviewed, and that's her given task, so she quite rightly tells the reporter the Letort fish kill is being treated as separate and she's focusing on the barracks. And what she knows is that an alarm was triggered, and that alarm doesn't tell them exactly what was in the water. They suspected gas, but when they got there and did more testing, the water seems to be fine. They are checking their monitoring system, and trying to figure it out.
If I had to guess. Purely a guess, nothing more. I'd guess that an underground gas pocket burst and came up through the rock and soil in that area. Probably methane, but could be radon or something as well. Natural phenomena, drilling related? I dunno. But pressurized gas got into the underground pipes as well as a spring in the area, and caused both. Upon reaching the surface it bubbled out of the water quickly and was gone before any further testing could identify it. And any investigation looking for a surface related pollution incident is doomed to fail. Best hope of seeing it would be seismic signals, as it likely caused minor tremors. But, in a populated area like that, on a near surface tremor, it'd be hard to separate any signal from the noise of things like trucks driving by.
I say that because I'm not involved and allowed to speculate. The investigators don't have that luxury.
