Monongahela Alligator Attacks One, Escapes into River

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BELLE VERNON, Pa. —

An Alligator sighted last year in the Monongahela River seems to be trapped in the pool created by the New Braddock Dam, said US Army Corps of Engineers Col. Whitley Fangs.

Unconfirmed reports that a Steel Worker at the U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works was attacked and dragged into the river while loading a coal barge. Kim and Frank Butts, of neighboring Jefferson Hills, have sued U.S. Steel over failure to protect its workers at its Clairton Coke Works. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, alleges that U.S. Steel failed to protect workers from the known alligator swimming in the adjacent river.

Meghan Cox, a spokeswoman for U.S. Steel, said the company does not comment on pending litigation.

Alligators have been spotted off and on over the years. The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources said two local fisherman captured and killed a reptile known as a caiman in the Mon River between Fairmont and Rivesville last October.

Closer to Pittsburgh, the Southwest Regional Police Department is investigating a sighting of an alligator in the Monongahela River in Belle Vernon, Fayette County.

Authorities said a man on a boat reported that he saw what he believed was an alligator approximately 8 to 10 feet long, swimming upstream against the current.

“He saw what he believed to be a log, going upstream about 10 or 15 feet from the shoreline,” Southwest Regional Police Chief John Hartman said. “He took his spotlight out and shined it on the log. He said he saw the head of an alligator, about 7 inches out of the water, two eyes and a tail.”

Police have consulted with the U.S. Coast Guard and Pittsburgh Zoo officials and determined that the alligator survived last winter even though the river remains relatively cold, Hartman said. It has been eating the large quantity of carp that reside in the river.

Photo: Alligator caught eating dead carp near McKeesport Marina, Photo Credit: Richard Hurtz

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