A Real Life Alligator in Beaver Run . Reservoir in Bell Twp Pa. ?

Yes the summer of 2011 was an interesting one in Bell Twp in Westmoreland County when an Alligator was spotted swimming in the closed to the public Beaver Run Reservoir  by Reservoir employees. The waters which provide drinking water to parts of Westmoreland County .
I some times take Pa 286 as a short cut up to US 22 and one day while riding by there was all kind of news

 and police on scene so  I knew something was up and there surely was. 

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/10/25/alligator-at-beaver-run-reservoir-remains-elusive/

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/10/06/officials-will-try-to-rescue-alligator-in-beaver-run-reservoir/

 Apparently some one had a pet alligator which got too big and it was released into the reservoir. spotted twice during the summer of 2011 it has not been seen since and the extreme cold makes the chance it survived the winter of 2011 highly unlikely .  While the reservoir was off limits to public there was still plenty to worry about with family's which lived near it . Yes there have always been rumors of alligators in sewers which is nothing more than a myth they can not survive long in the waste water , but snakes have been found usually dead. the carcass of a very large python was found in a city of Pittsburgh  sewer in Overbrook when I was a kid  in the 60's I remember the picture in the Pittsburgh Press and knew the city worker who found it.