Re: Environmental Sampling:

[Warren_Church@uml.edu (Warren Church)]

Besides the orange outfits are an insult to the environment. I suggest
pastels or earth tones depending on the type of sample being collected.
warren_church@uml.edu

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> From: MARK WINSLOW <WINSLOW.MARK@epamail.epa.gov>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Environmental Sampling:
> Date: Thursday, February 12, 1998 3:39 PM
> 
> Environmental Sampling:
> 
> Tuesday, February 10, 1998
> 
> By ROBIN URIS
> Staff Writer
> 
> Apparently, cheese-curl orange has become a little too popular.
> 
> On Monday afternoon, three scientists from the federal Environmental
Protection Agency stopped their boat behind the Bergen County Jail in      
Hackensack to take water samples from the Hackensack River.
> 
> To the dismay of couturiers worldwide, the scientists were wearing
Day-Glo  orange windbreakers and matching pants -- the same "notice me" hue
worn by inmates from fashion wastelands such as Sing Sing, Attica -- and
the Bergen County Jail.
> 
> For about an hour, the scientists worked quietly. Then someone walked by 
and, in the words of one police officer, "freaked out."
> 
> Moments later, law enforcement officers countywide lurched into
full-alert mode. A bulletin was broadcast at 4:27 p.m.: Three inmates had
escaped from the jail and were headed south toward Newark Bay in a wooden
dinghy.
> 
> They were wearing orange prison jumpsuits.
> 
> "It's Papillon all over again," Bergen County police Lt. Paul Hamell said
at the height of the fracas, referring to the movie in which Dustin Hoffman
plays a sensitive, bespectacled prisoner who escapes from prison.
> 
> County police dispatched all available units and several scent-tracking
dogs to spots along the riverbank.
> 
> Patrol cars with sirens yowling sped to the Route 46 bridge, the
designated  lookout post. Officers blanketed both sides of the Route 46
circle in Little Ferry and at least two cars were dispatched to Carlstadt.
> 
> Meanwhile, Bergen County Jail guards did a head count and realized nobody
was missing. The mystery was solved at 4:45 p.m., just as jail officials
were beginning to wonder what sort of inmate wannabes had been hanging
around their facility.
> 
> A helicopter spotted the scientists in Secaucus, quietly motoring down
the river -- but looking an awful lot like escapees. Bergen County
sheriff's officers rushed to the scene just in time to see the befuddled
EPA inspectors docking to investigate the fuss.
> 
> "They didn't understand what they did wrong," Undersheriff Jay Alpert
said.
> "They were very confused, to say the least."
> 
> After showing their identification cards, the scientists, who were not
identified, were sent on their way -- still wearing their orange jackets
and pants. The EPA takes water samples from the river twice a month, Alpert
said.
> 
> For the samples, Alpert said he is grateful. But he plans to call the
federal agncy today and request that they rethink their ensembles.
> 
> "I suggest they get a new uniform," Alpert said. "It's not such a good
idea to dress like an inmate if you're hanging around a jail."
> 
>                                Copyright © 1998 Bergen Record Corp.   
> 
> Mark P. Winslow
> US EPA Region II
> winslow.mark@epamail.epa.gov