Posted on 02/20/2023 10:35:05 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted joined local officials in East Palestine over the weekend in drinking city water from the tap, in a bid to convince residents the municipal water supply is safe following a train derailment and chemical spill.
Husted, a Republican, joined US Rep. Bill Johnson, Ohio EPA Director Anne Vogel, and East Palestine's mayor, fire chief and police chief in a joint event to drink the water on camera.
'You all just saw us drink a glass of water. Our municipal water here in East Palestine is safe,' said Mayor Trent R. Conaway. 'If you have well water, please get it tested, and please stay away from the creeks and streams -- yes, they are polluted, and we have had fish kills, but as far as the municipal water, it is safe.'
Following the February 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying vinyl chloride and other toxic substances, residents of East Palestine have expressed fears about air and water safety, amid anecdotal reports of illness symptoms.
The Ohio EPA on Friday released final testing results confirming 'that there is no indication of risk to East Palestine Public Water customers.'
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No I don't. In fact my cup of schadenfreude runneth over!
So they went from well to well drinking the water?
So they went from well to well drinking the water?
Unless I saw the water being poured from somebody’s house and they kept a camera on the glass of water while it was being brought to them, I am better they drank bottled water.
How long will it take for the surface poisoning to percolate down into the aquifer?
I seem to remember people like Pelosi hugging Chinese and then there came a virus?
And wasn’t there some big guru in India drinking out of the Ganges and got hepatitis?
Depending on the pattern of groundwater migration, maybe never. In this hilly area of Ohio, underground water flows downhill just like it does on the surface.
The remediation teams have been digging up and hauling off the worst of the contaminated soil anyway. (I've read that they dig a ditch to collect and concentrate as much as they could, to make this easier.)
Your comment is behind idiotic considering all the videos of dead of fish in streams polluted with chemicals.
Well, good! Now we can trust everything the government and MSM says again.
It’s sunrise in America!!!
No. The city water system draws water from a group of wells (called a "well field"), runs it through filters and maybe adds bromine or chlorine, or oxygenates it, or whatever, before feeding it to the distribution system. This is how cities and town supply water to the residents.
There will probably be some people on private wells who will have contamination. Time will tell.
I feel for the farmers and residents immediately downwind, in Pennsylvania. They've surely got a coating of particulate fallout, which may contain some one of the many dioxins. Not in concentrations like Times Beach, but enough to make hay crops unsafe as animal feed for years to come. Not hearing anything in the media. Too much work to report on it, I suppose.
Did someone see it come from the tap? I saw Luke Skywalker blow up the death star also..... Sooooooo
Cincinnati draws its' water from the Ohio River. There is a highly dilute plume of chemicals progressing down the big river, because some of it got into Beaver Creek, which is a minor tributary. Closing the intakes was motivated more by the screeching of the Chicken Littles and the slavering of tort lawyers than any real risk. With the addition of uncontaminated water from the Muskingum, the Kanawha, and the Little Kanawha, the concentrations in the plume must be pretty low by now. Haven't read any trustworthy reporting on that, either.
Sometimes in the morning when shadows are deep
I lie here beside you
Just watching you sleep
And sometimes I whisper
What I’m thinking of
My cup runneth over with Love Canal!
Yeah, the water is safe and effective.
While Cincinnati closed their intake, Louisville officials seem to be intentionally acting like nothing happened. Meanwhile, store shelves are nearly empty of bottled water in metro Louisville.
Beat me to it!
Over time drinking that water will eventually destroy you.
Drink up me boys it wont hit you fro another 10 20 years. Real stupid antics
‘You all just saw us drink a glass of water.‘
No doubt bottled water, you damn lying and murderous C*suckers.
‘ Louisville officials seem to be intentionally acting like nothing happened.’
Yep. Because they’re incompetent fools. I’ve not used tap in a week as a precaution.
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