NSW: Water supply cut because of unidentified object

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-1999
NSW: Water supply cut because of unidentified object

The water supply to a town in northern New South Wales has been cut off as authories
investigate an unidentified object that's crashed into the local dam.

Police at Guyra say plans are in place to truck water in from Armidale and Glen Innes.

The object crashed some time between Monday and midday yesterday into the Guyra water
supply dam on the outskirts of the town, north of Armidale.

Fire brigade spokesman JOHN HOBAR says an area of reed beds measuring four metres by
10 metres has been flattened, fuelling suspicion that the object may have fallen from
the sky.

But he says he's checked with a number of space agencies, meterological experts and
authorities in Canberra and there've been no sightings of an unidentified flying object.

Mr HOBAR says the brigade's hazardous material unit has tested the water for toxins
and radioactive material, but the tests were negative.

RTV sal/rp

KEYWORD: DAM (SYDNEY)

1999 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.