[Morgana]

FReepers...

The Elk river runs into the Kanawha River.

The Kanawha river runs into the Ohio river.

The Ohio River runs into the Mississippi River.

Members of the Polar Bear club NO SWIMMING!

[TheRhinelander]

This is going to be an epic event you won’t hear much about. Could last weeks or months and as you said, keep spreading southwards.

Anyone still laughing at preppers?

[rmh47]

The average annual flow rate for the Ohio river is 116800 cubic feet per second.

There are 7.48 gallons of water in a cubic foot.

The spill was 7500 gallons.

You do the math.

[fella]

7,500 gallons is less than the Fuel Truck that you see at your local station when you fill up.

[mosesdapoet]

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled DEP Estimates 7,500 Gallons of Chemical Leaked, Water Ban Still in Place (WV Chemical Spill), Morgana wrote:
FReepers...

“The Elk river runs into the Kanawha River.

The Kanawha river runs into the Ohio river.

The Ohio River runs into the Mississippi River.”

Affected are those municipalities and apparantly farms which get their processed potable water from these rivers not ground water (wells). With all this hype and poor reporting by the media it may seem an unimportant distinction but isn’t.
For it to get as bad as it has means somebody was not doing their job early on, or the system they were using was unable to detect this polution. Radio reports are of 32 cases claiming water poisoning.