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From: wlh1@aol.com
Date: 11 Oct 2001
Time: 18:35:40
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Source: Suffolk Life Newspaper, a weekly paper SECURITY AT PLUM ISLAND LAB While interviewing Southold town candidates we were dismayed to hear their concerns about the lack of security at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. The lab is a level 3 experimental facility which conducts testing and research on foot and mouth disease as well as other animal medical problems. The federal government, which runs the lab has been trying to upgrade the facility to a Level 4 . The lab would then be capable of dealing with exotic viruses that could affect humans. These plans have been temporally put on hold as monies for this expansion have been taken out of the budget. According to town candidates who are familiar with the lab there are only three people at the lab during the nighttime hours a fireman and two other maintenance people. There is no 24/7 armed security force on the island capable of repelling anyone who wanted to invade this space. We also recently learned that the airspace over the lab which had previously been o "no-fly zone," is now open to all air traffic. Terrorists have promised to attack America again. Is the lab just a sitting Duck, a potential target as the Twin Towers were? What would happen to the millions of people and the livestock that is located within a twenty-five mile radius of the lab if terrorists were able to penetrate this facility and blow it up? Should we be alarmed at the apparent lack of security? Does the lab belong in such close proximity to such a massive population? Why is the lab going ahead with the repairs, remodeling and upgrades if the federal government does not plan on converting the lab to a Level 4 facility? Shouldn't the lab be brought under our new homeland initiative? Senators Schumer and Clinton and Congressman Grucci should be asking these hard questions and getting the answers for the people of Suffolk County.
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Time: 10:27:11
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