Posted on 03/27/2023 2:39:52 AM PDT by servo1969
Residents in Philadelphia are flocking to local supermarket stores such as Target and Walmart to buy water after a major chemical spill occurred in the Delaware River.
On Friday night over 8,000 gallons of latex-based solution spilled into the Delaware River from a chemical plant in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
The massive spill caused Philadelphia city officials to send residents an emergency phone alert urging residents to buy bottled water and to not drink their tap water.
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The emergency alert sent residents of Philadelphia in a frenzy and caused them to flock to local supermarket stores in the area to stock up on water.
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City water official’s later declared the the water in Philadelphia is safe to drink.
The Philadelphia Water Department tweeted out “Based on updated hydraulic modeling and the latest sampling, we are confident tap water from the Baxter plant will remain safe to drink through 11:59 p.m. Monday, March 27. ”
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Every day we get a little bit closer to becoming a third world country.
Closer??? We’ve been a third world country since 1/6/21
“The massive spill caused Philadelphia city officials to send residents an emergency phone alert urging residents to buy bottled water and to not drink their tap water.”
This being Philadelphia, my first thought was, “I wonder how much stock in bottled water companies do the city officials have?”
Softening up, that is what is happening.
Critical infrastructure we have been watching around the country.
Well, that's reassuring. You can always trust what the dems in Philthadelphia tell their sheeple. /s
8,000 is a big number.
If it were 50 gallon drums that number would be 160 not such a big number. 160 barrels will easily fit into a 54’ trailer. So that’s not even one tractor-trailer load.
Tom Lehrer
If you visit American city
You will find it very pretty
Just two things of which you should be
aware—don’t drink the water and don’t
breathe the air
Pollution, pollution, you can use the
latest toothpaste
Then wash it down with industrial waste
When did the river in Cleveland catch on fire?
I will answer myself:
Was the river fire of 1969 the only time this happened to the Cuyahoga?
On June 22, 1969, an oil slick caught fire on the Cuyahoga River just southeast of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The image that the “the river caught fire” motivated change to protect the environment. However, this was in fact the thirteenth recorded time that the river had caught fire since 1868.
13 times the river caught on fire in 100 years.
Our waterways are much cleaner today, than when I grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo in the 1970s.
Remember Love Canal?
I remember the warnings for pregnant women not to eat fish out of Lake Ontario more than once a week. This was because of the MERCURY in especially the dominant predator lake trout & salmon. This was from the crap that was dumped in the Niagara River and directly into Lake Ontario/Erie, etc.
Today Lake Erie is one of the best Muskee fishing in the world.
The flow rate of the Delaware is about 100,000 gallons per second. 8,000 gallons of a water soluble latex in the river is literally a drop in the bucket. In an hour it is diluted to 22 PPM. Philly water is not the best tasting water but I doubt it will hurt anyone after it is processed from the river.
Caused quite the traffic jam on the Ben Franklin bridge. Philly folks came over to Jersey to buy water. I happen to live in South Jersey and we have one of the largest aquifers on the east coast. When it starts to hit the fan for whatever the reason its going to look like that at the beginning.
I had looked up some of the data myself and came to the same conclusion....mole hill, not a mountain.
We have cleaned up the environment a LOT since you and I were kids.
And yet, the greenies would have kids believe that today, the world and the US is more polluted that at any other time in
history.
The pollution has shifted to other places in the world.
Cobalt mining in the Congo is a classic example of this.
Coal burning in China to make electricity is another. Remember when the Chinese shut all the factories down prior to the Olympics because the air quality was so bad.
The biggest hypocrite is the wind power industry. Build these huge windmills. Ship them half way around the world to supply intermittent power for twenty years. Then dig a big hole and bury them in the ground. Leaving the huge concrete foundations in the ground.
Not to mention the windmill blade graveyards. Those things do not recycle.
Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
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