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Was an EAS alert issued for the water emergency?

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It seems to me an unexpected boil water order affecting two million people qualifies as a civil emergency. Was the local EAS system put to good use yesterday?
 
Alert Received at 05/01/10 18:35:57 on monitor #2
Matched Filter OTHERS
A Broadcast station or cable system has issued a Civil Danger Warning for
Suffolk, MA, Norfolk, MA, Middlesex, MA, Essex, MA, and Worcester, MA beginning
at 6:36 pm and ending at 6:51 pm (WBZ)
ZCZC-EAS-CDW-025025-025021-025017-025009-025027+0015-1212236-WBZ
 
What is all the fuss about ? Back in my day I used to swim in sewer water at city point ( South Boston ).
 
Was an EAS alert issued? Yes and no. The primary station
that we monitor for EAS purposes - WBZ-FM, 98.5 - did not issue
an alert, other than the regular weekly test, which was received around 3am,
Sunday morning. I would say this shows yet another flaw in the EAS system.
Surely, an event of this magnitude would warrant a full-scale public alert.
And you can bet the rent check that no pirates, at all, aired any EAS alerts.
So much for pirates "serving the public"! ::) ::) ::)
 
Alert Received at 05/01/10 18:35:57 on monitor #2
Matched Filter OTHERS
A Broadcast station or cable system has issued a Civil Danger Warning for
Suffolk, MA, Norfolk, MA, Middlesex, MA, Essex, MA, and Worcester, MA beginning
at 6:36 pm and ending at 6:51 pm (WBZ)
ZCZC-EAS-CDW-025025-025021-025017-025009-025027+0015-1212236-WBZ

WLYNgm said:
Was an EAS alert issued? Yes and no. The primary station
that we monitor for EAS purposes - WBZ-FM, 98.5 - did not issue
an alert, other than the regular weekly test, which was received around 3am,
Sunday morning. I would say this shows yet another flaw in the EAS system.
Surely, an event of this magnitude would warrant a full-scale public alert.
And you can bet the rent check that no pirates, at all, aired any EAS alerts.
So much for pirates "serving the public"! ::) ::) ::)
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Yea, WBZ-AM issued an alert. That is not in dispute.
What is now WBZ-FM, 98.5 did not. A bug in the system?
Bring back Conelrad! ;D ;D ;D
 
WLYNgm said:
Yea, WBZ-AM issued an alert. That is not in dispute.
What is now WBZ-FM, 98.5 did not. A bug in the system?
Bring back Conelrad! ;D ;D ;D
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WBZ-FM is your required LPS-1 WBZ-AM is your LPS-2. You are required to monitor both. WBZ-AM usually initiates most MEMA and SP broadcasts like AMBER alerts and stuff like this. Lets face it a news station is easier to reach and has folks on duty who know how to turn around the audio more than a sports station does.
 
Was there any EAS activity when the "must boil" order was lifted?

I contend that, since the MWRA had not actually detected any contaminated water in its tests at hundreds of downstream points both while the old aqueduct was temporarily in service and after the failure in the new aqueduct had been repaired and that aqueduct had been restored to service, it was unnecessary for MWRA customers to go through the elaborate flushing of household water pipes, which was clearly intended to rid those pipes of contaminated water--of which there was none in this case. Minor inconvenience? Sure! Maybe the MWRA or the Mass DEP can say that they recommended the flushing, in, as the lawyers say, "an abundance of caution." But certainly not a reason for another EAS alert--if, indeed, there was one.

Frankly, I think WBZ (AM)'s Steve LeVeille went WAY overboard with his reading, AFTER Gov. Patrick lifted the must-boil order, of rather voluminous material from the Mass DEP Web site on flushing out of household water systems.
 
DanStrassberg said:
Frankly, I think WBZ (AM)'s Steve LeVeille went WAY overboard with his reading, AFTER Gov. Patrick lifted the must-boil order, of rather voluminous material from the Mass DEP Web site on flushing out of household water systems.
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Hmmm... I disagree... I don't think he went overboard at all.

As Steve said on the air... if they DIDN'T issue the ban--- and the subsequent flushing once the ban was lifted--- and people started getting sick, all you would hear about is how they didn't take the needed precautions.

At least we weren't stuck with Grayson talking about monkey meat while a large portion of Eastern Mass. was waiting for information about the water supply.

I think the officials were SPOT ON about the way they handled the situation.... and I gladly flushed out my system as instructed.
 
radiorama1 said:
DanStrassberg said:
Frankly, I think WBZ (AM)'s Steve LeVeille went WAY overboard with his reading, AFTER Gov. Patrick lifted the must-boil order, of rather voluminous material from the Mass DEP Web site on flushing out of household water systems.
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Hmmm... I disagree... I don't think he went overboard at all.

As Steve said on the air... if they DIDN'T issue the ban--- and the subsequent flushing once the ban was lifted--- and people started getting sick, all you would hear about is how they didn't take the needed precautions.

At least we weren't stuck with Grayson talking about monkey meat while a large portion of Eastern Mass. was waiting for information about the water supply.

I think the officials were SPOT ON about the way they handled the situation.... and I gladly flushed out my system as instructed.
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I do not disagree at all--about the ban itself. I DO disagree about the need for flushing when the ban was lifted. As I understand it, there was no evidence--zero--of ANY contaminated water having been found in the tests performed at any of several hundred locations throughout the affected area either while the ban was in effect or after repairs had been made and the 7-year-old (new) aqueduct had been placed back in service in anticipation of the ban being lifted. I believe that the only reason the Mass DEP recommended flushing after the ban was lifted was to be extremely (and, IMO, unnecessarily) cautious--maybe to avoid giving the public the wrong impression about what to do should there be another emergency in which contaminated water did get into the system. In such a situation, flushing after the repairs were made would absolutely be necessary before tap water could be used in the normal manner. People who wanted to flush were certainly entitled to do so and could find the instructions for doing so at the DEP Web site. But I believe that talking over the air in an excited, overwrought manner, about the necessity for flushing domestic water systems after the ban was lifted was inappropriate.

WGBH and Channel 2 personality, Emily Rooney, went too far in the other direction. She lives in the Back Bay and she boasted on the air, all during the ban and afterward, that she had been drinking the tap water without boiling it. If any of those who followed her example becomes or had become ill with the well-publicized symptoms of water-borne infection either during the ban or for about 10 days afterward, I suspect that Ms Rooney and WGBH radio and TV would have had to deal with law suits.
 
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