Heads up for west virginia folk, State of Emergency

[thetruepandagod]

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/F...?device=tablet

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401090044

Don't go near tap water for a little while.

[Andalusian girls]

their comeuppance for abandoning the cause

[kuronosan]

Methanol solutions are some serious shit. I hope nobody drank much, if any.

[shepardG]

How would we know if any west virginians even are affected?

[ronin sparthos]

A spike in the number of superheroes. You can never quite trust those toxic chemicals.

[BaneTheBrawler]

their comeuppance for abandoning the cause

oh god, i was sitting here for like three minutes trying to figure out what the fuck you were talking about and then it hit me


West Virginia


bravo

[Callisto]

that's what they get for Pearl Harbor

Laura Jordan says there is no way to treat the water. The company still doesn't have a timetable for when the water will be safe to use.

Yikes.

[myreality]

So the chemical dissolves anything with carbon.........this will not end well.

[quannum]

i'm sure the zombie outbreak starts in w. virginia

[bluefan]

i'm sure the zombie outbreak starts in w. virginia

^

[Sepukku]

you have to have internet access to read BG though

[ronin sparthos]

Zombies won't take down the net infrastructure. What is this? 1960?

They too need wifi to coordinate infection plans through a twitter feed and for us to like their hastily put together Facebook page.

[ringthree]

[6souls]

Safe, for some, to drink again

West Virginia authorities have begun easing a ban on drinking tap water enacted after a chemical spill tainted much of the state's water supply.

Governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced some of the 300,000 people affected could begin using the water on Monday.

Only residents of designated areas were authorised to begin consuming water until further testing could be done.

On Thursday, a chemical used to process coal leaked from a plant into the Elk river.

"The numbers we have today look good and we are finally at a point where the 'do not use order' has been lifted," Governor Tomblin told reporters on Monday.

At least 6,000 water customers in the state capital of Charleston were cleared to use tap water.

West Virginia American Water President Jeff McIntyre warned it could be days before the entire system was cleared of contaminated water.

Officials said they were lifting the ban in a strict, methodical manner to prevent excessive demand and additional water quality problems.

Residents were asked to flush their own water systems before use as a precaution.

School official James Phares told the Associated Press he hoped the largest two school systems affected could reopen on Tuesday, but "we're not going to be rushing them back to school if it's not safe".

The contamination had forced authorities to close schools and businesses in nine counties last week, and the state legislature in the capital city of Charleston cancelled a legislative session.

Charleston Mayor Danny Jones called the spill "devastating to the public at large and to the people that live in our city" on Friday.

The spill was first found after the state's environmental protection department received a report of a strange odour near the Elk river on Thursday.

Officials found a leaking storage unit, a spokesman said. The spill had overrun a containment area and leaked into the river.

While the leaking container held at least 40,000 gallons (182,000 litres), state environmental official Tom Aluise said investigators were "confident" that no more than 5,000 gallons escaped.

Coal manufacturer Freedom Industries said the chemical, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, could be harmful if swallowed and could cause skin and eye irritation.

The company's president Gary Southern said on Friday the company believed it had "mitigated the risk... in terms of further material leaving this facility".

The chemicals stored by Freedom Industries were not required to have a permit nor did their tanks fall under an inspection programme, but some officials were considering a change to those rules.

Randy Huffman, the state's director for environmental protection, said one idea would be to require tanks to be a certain distance from the river.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25717023

[Sepukku]

Turns out the Koch brothers own the company that owns this plant and Americans for Prosperity did a PR water hand out around the area. What a joke. Only more disturbing is some of the links I read at work have since been yanked and aren't on CNN, Time, or other sites anymore.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/20...n_be_evil.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4591905.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/koch...chemical-spill

[Abandon]

They need to get on Admiral rickover's level. That nigga went around drinking reactor coolant to show it was safe. PUT UP OR SHUT UP

[Meresgi]

So it was 23yrs since the last inspection on this shit from what I gathered? How the fuck does that even work?

And not surprised it was owned by the Koch fuckers.

[notorious bum]

Too much regulation bro

[archibaldcrane]

Those particular chemicals, from what I read, weren't under ANY special regulations at all.

[notorious bum]

Hopefully Erin Brockovich can help obtain some type of repeat of success for these poor people who were unknowingly drinking/bathing in chemicals and will all most likely get cancer in the next 10yrs.