Strike one coal mine. EPA party on.
You are not kidding. The dems will really go after coal now. This whole thing is fishy, they had time to stop the intake from the Elk River but did not. I last heard 10 people now in the hospital. Pay attention to this the war on coal is on I just hope West Virginians don’t get a tree huggy after this.
Actually this is a chemical plant. Not a coal mine. Located on the banks of the Elk River probably less than a mile up stream of the municipal water plant intake located on the Kanawha River.
I fish the Kanawha and New River and I’ll just tell you. If the EPA is concerned with “odors in the vicinity of state waters”, and “unreasonable degree of treatment for the production of potable water”, they need to look no further than all the municipal sewage plants lining all rivers in the state. Discharges by the National Park Service at Grandview Sand Bar and National Park Service at Army Camp. Both located on the New River up stream of the water plant intake involved in this article. Municipalities have long been the largest polluters of our rivers and streams. And they have get out of jail free cards. I will never drink or cook with municipal water taken from surface sources. Don’t like showering with it but work makes me travel a lot so . . . what choice have I? Don’t drink water from surface sources folks. You’re drinking piss.