Posted on 02/15/2023 6:30:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, were told Wednesday afternoon that municipal water is "safe to drink" after officials received new water testing results. The update from Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's office comes just one day after officials urged residents to only drink bottled water amid concerns that chemicals from the Feb. 3 train derailment may have seeped into local water sources.
As of Wednesday afternoon, municipal water testing results showed "no detection of contaminants in raw water from the five wells that feed into East Palestine's municipal water system," the governor's office said in a news release.
The new results also show that the treated water from the wells – located about one mile from the train derailment site – showed "no detection of contaminants associated with the derailment."
"With these test results, Ohio EPA is confident that the municipal water is safe to drink," the state said.
The wells are at least 56 feet below the ground and covered by solid steel that protect them from contamination, the state said, adding that the water from the wells is treated before being made available for consumption.
At the time of the accident, the train was carrying several hazardous chemical compounds known to cause health impacts when ingested.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Bruce Vanderhoff, the director of the state's Department of Health, said that most of the chemicals of concern are in a group known as Volatile Organic Compounds, or VOCs. Many VOCs are human-made chemicals used in a variety of products and that can be emitted by paints, cleaning supplies, pesticides, building materials and more, according to the EPA.
These compounds, Vanderhoff said, are "a part of our everyday life."
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Safe??? Nod nod, wink wink, okay, you drink first.
safe and effective
So are these “officials” drinking it?
Right. And the air was perfectly safe to breathe in NYC after 9/11. Trust government right?
None of them live there but trust us.
I trust that info about as far a I could throw a 70s Cadillac.
Methinks, if I lived within 500 plus miles of East Palestine, Ohio I would be drinking bottled water for the next 20 to 30 years.
the locals report they did not even measure water levels.
this shows conspiracy to murder these innocent people,
and thousands to millions more, at the highest
levels of ‘government(of some foreign power(s))’.
However they warned against using it to fill any aquariums.
I heard on the news that the same chemicals used in WWI to gas our soldiers were on that train. What in the world is it being used for in these days?
How about a 76 Buick LeSabre?
Every senior administration official should be required to drink local East Palestine, Ohio water with every meal until they leave office—or until they declare it unsafe—whichever comes first.
Depends upon the soil substrate composition.
56 feet is not that deep but still could take months to a year for surface liquids to seep to that depth.
Just a FYI.
*Parts of Texas has recharge zones where as rain run off drains directly to open fissures in drainage paths straight down to the aquifer.
Official experts finally are on record. Don’t believe them for a minute.
Wonderful tagline—so many of us have been there...
. But another consideration: property values just went south.
Phosgene, a pretty common industrial chemical. Nothing exotic. Look up its many uses.
Were they wearing hazmat suits when they said this?
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