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Peter Wiggin's avatar

It’s pretty clear that hazardous material spills have included weeks of news coverage. Daily updates by the State authorities and daily EPA briefings...

...Governor DeWine almost joked, 2 weeks later, about “possibly” not drinking the water and using bottled water

DeWine seemed to have limited to none of the information to advise local citizens, as well as to the nation. This has the potential to become an EPA Super Fund site...

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Pete Lincoln's avatar

Sorry fir delay, I am in Taiwan so a bit of time difference. Saw the post, thanks.

The Vinyl chloride did not leak in the East Palestine accident, at least according to EPA report I just found

Although its curious, only 4 of the 5 tanks did they state conclusively “did not leak” so maybe there was some minor leakage, unlike Paulsburgs 23,000 gallons.

After the controlled release into a trench, no vapor cloud woukd have spread since it was burned

Leak

Propylene Glycol

Diethylene Glycol

butyl acrylate

ETHYLHEXYL ACRYLATE

Petroleum lube oil

Petro oil

Polyvinly -burning

https://response.epa.gov/sites/15933/files/TRAIN%2032N%20-%20EAST%20PALESTINE%20-%20derail%20list%20Norfolk%20Southern%20document.pdf

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