Polluted Water in East Palestine, Ohio
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v.redd.itPosted Feb 16, 2023, 11:18 PM UTC
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v.redd.itThis is incredible negligence by Norfolk Southern. This is the result of a corporation that cares only about greed and profit. The rail workers have been saying that the railways were unsafe, and railworkers across the country were trying to go on strike, but corporate politicians in both parties shut that down. Norfolk Southern also didn't categorize the train carrying these chemicals as hazardous, because they were trying to earn more profits.
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Biden shut down the strike.
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Proving he is much more of a centrist conservative interested in maintaining the status quo and protecting corporations than the "liberal leftist" some idiots try to paint him as.
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) -- The following is a status update regarding water testing results in East Palestine as of 3 p.m. on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.
Municipal Water Testing Results:
New water testing results have been returned to the Ohio EPA. These results show no detection of contaminants in raw water from the five wells that feed into East Palestine’s municipal water system.
Test results from the combined, treated water from all five wells also showed no detection of contaminants associated with the derailment.
With these tests results, Ohio EPA is confident that the municipal water is safe to drink.
Additional Information on the East Palestine Municipal Water System:
East Palestine’s municipal water system, which provides drinking water for most area residents, takes in water from five wells that are located approximately one mile from the derailment site. The municipal wells are at least 56 feet below the surface and are covered by a solid steel casing that protects the water from contamination. Before drinking water is made available to the public, water from these five wells is combined at the water treatment plant and treated.
Although it was unlikely that any contaminants entered the wells that serve the municipal water supply, Ohio EPA tested the combined, treated water soon after the derailment. Those tests showed no contamination.
Out of an abundance of caution, Ohio EPA took samples of raw, untreated water directly from all five wells over the past week. A new sample of the combined, treated water was also collected.
As noted above, new testing results from the five wells, as well as the treated water sample, showed no evidence of contamination associated with the derailment.
Private Water Wells:
Because private water wells may be closer to the surface than the municipal water wells, the Ohio EPA recommends that those who receive drinking water from private water wells schedule an appointment for well water testing by an independent consultant.
For information on how to schedule your private water well for testing, call 330-849-3919. The Ohio Department of Health encourages those with private wells to use bottled water until their well water testing results are returned.
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Dont know if I would trust them. I would want someone else testing it
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The Government could be a friend. But not when they fuck around and find out with stupid shit like this. Corporations certainly aren’t going to keep us safe with their altruistic intentions
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That's really not great. It looks like the chemicals have settled at the bottom and come up when they are disturbed. If that's the case they won't flow downstream and be diluted but could stick around a long time.
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I did some digging through the original thread (on Interestingasfuck) and couldn't find any corroboration that this was from East Palestine. Moreover, they pulled the thread because of lack of proof.
Having said that, the mess in EP is absolutely awful and terrible. This.. just may not be footage from it.
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Why are you standing that close?
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Very sad
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Not only was Norfolk Southern doing environmental testing after the disaster they created, they apparently required homeowners to sign away their right to sue Norfolk Southern as a condition of that testing. A Newsnation reporter interviewewed a homeowner who refused to play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uITwmA3macM
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Awful
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Goddamn sad.
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Amazing how these people are concerned about the environment when it affects them. I guarantee they don't care about climate change, deforestation, big oil, plastics etc and probably think Greta Thunberg is the devil.
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projection much?
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Pretty sure that's a brainwashed Fox News/Tucker Carlson area. No projection. Just reality.
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Nope, don't care. Science couldn't make up their mind between global cooling and global warming, so now it's just climate change. Lost all credibility, now it's just buzzwords to sell shit.
We can plant trees after logging, farms absorb more C02, oil is better than slave mining cobalt and lithium, and glass is better than plastic, yes, but some products are impossible without it.
Greta is a lying little devil, whats your point?
Did i hit the high notes?
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You’re high on something, yeah
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Sure. Dizzy after all the mental gymnastics yall do in here.
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Good
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Keep Voting. When will we learn it’s not the elects that make change?
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She's dumb for not wearing a hazmat suit. You're breathing it in!
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Did that before the accident.
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Fuck Ohio, wanting your less regulation less government, well you should be on your own with your great alternative plan of what? trusting corporations to do the right thing?
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We all live downstream and downwind of others. Being on your own doesn't work when it comes to pollution because it travels.
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But if you look around this subreddit, you'll see that so few want to take responsibility for their votes...they got theirs, so fuck everyone else.
It leads EXACTLY to disasters like this.
So more accurately, fuck you if you're still voting republican.
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I'm betting a lot of folks have given up on voting tbh.
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Norfolk Southern: "We're supporting art in rural communities"