European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 30, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3water curbs clarified in Naples banned by military too by sue Palumbo Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy a the recent ban on drinking tap water in the Naples area includes cooking and washing food military officials warned tuesday. Navy officials banned tap water consumption Friday after health workers discovered bacterial contamination. The ban affects More than 500 families and an undetermined number of civilian and military people who work or live in the pin Tamare and Castel Volturo areas of Naples and at the Cap Dichino military Airport. Quot the water can still be used for bathing however not for ingestion by use in cooking washing food or drinking a the Navy said in a statement. Quot water with turbidity or discoloration should not be the majority of government leased housing the Tern Horary lodging facility and the elementary school Are also located in the pin Tamare area. On Friday water containers called buffaloes were set up at the school the Airport and the towers apartments. Residents were also told that they can pick up free water at the military warehouse in pin Tamare. This is the fourth time officials have placed a ban on drinking water in the Naples area in the last 10 months. Ass Marten Hamilton fifth graders Joe Hay pcs left and Travis null both 10, play around a Buffalo filled with drinking Naples. Teased housing units after a ban last year lasted several weeks. Al the bacterial contamination was discovered by . Naval Hospital preventive Medicine personnel during routine testing. It. Terrence Sutherland the Public affairs officer for the naval support activity Naples said that the Type of bacteria has not been determined but that the contamination is not considered Likely to cause serious illness. A this is an Issue of great concern but the majority of people on a Day to Day basis drink bottled water anyway a Sutherland said. Quot Public works has made great strides in the past year to develop improved ways of testing the water. We Are always looking at ways to combat and alleviate the a several changes have been made in water testing methods during the last year. A new monitoring device measures elements in the water and assigns the water a signature. If the signature changes officials Are alerted that the water is coming from a different source. A if we know the source is different then we know we should test the water for other things and we know we need to investigate Why the source changed a said Dawn Craig envy of Romenta coordinator for the support activity. Craig said the change in source could mean construction caused the water to be rerouted through another system. It could also mean that the water line was temporarily shut off for repairs. Sometimes after water is turned off Sedi mints enter the system when it is turned Back on she said. A you could never have a perfectly clean water line a Craig said Quot there Are nutrients in All water that arc put there by nature. We just try to Monitor what is there and try to keep it in Check with sends 10 to join nato operation by j. King Cruger. Northern Italy Bureau Aviano a Italy a Spain has deployed 10 aircraft and More than 200 air Force personnel to Aviano a to take part in operation deny flight. The four month deployment Marks the first time Spain has sent aircraft into a combat operation. Deny flight is the Alii Ancess Effort to enforce the . No Fly zone Over Bosnia and Herzegovina. T Quot the Spanish air Force has participated in Many . Missions abroad but they were All humanitarian. This the deployment is very historic and is especially important for us it. Col Jaime Lahoz the deployment commander said tuesday. As Lahoz spoke Spanish air Force c-130s and other transport aircraft continued to ferry supplies from Zaragoza a Spain for use during the deployment. Quot basically All our personnel Are Here. Only cargo is arriving today a Lahoz said. A we Are trying to be self sufficient during the deployment. We brought along our own Cooks in order to take some of the Burden off the 8&s the Spanish air Force has deployed eight ef-18 fighter bombers and two Kc-130 tankers plus 220 personnel to Aviano. All the aircraft and personnel Are assigned to the Spanish air forces 31st Wing at Zaragoza. At present the Spanish forces Are setting up operations and familiarizing themselves with the areas they will patrol Oyer Bosnia Lahoz said adding he expects his planes to Start flying combat patrols thursday. Daschle gains in vote for Senate Leader Washington a sen. Thomas Daschle of South Dakota picked up additional support in the contest for Senate democratic Leader tuesday and claimed enough votes to prevail in his bid to head the minority party in the incoming Congress. Daschle said a commitment by sen. Howell Heflin of Alabama had provided the 24th vote in a caucus of 47 democrats. Quot we have gone Over the top a said the 46-year-old second term senator. Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut who has mounted a late Challenge to Daschle had no immediate response. Aides have said previously that he would not pursue his candidacy if it appeared doomed to defeat. The secret ballot election is scheduled for Friday. The democratic Leader would succeed sen. George Mitchell of Maine who is retiring. In an interview Daschle said he would work with fellow democrats who lost their congressional majorities in this months elections to create a legislative Agenda that Quot allows us to connect in a More meaningful Way with the american he also signalled that he subordinate the Senate democratic Agenda to the one the White House produces. Some heavy lifting a amps Dove Caisy for weighty work Rhein main a Germany had to Call in some mighty muscle. The task the act base officials faced was How to remove some old bunkers that tip the Scales at 27 tons to 36 tons. Their solution to use a Crane with a 160-ton capacity
