After heavy rains and high winds swept through East Palestine, Ohio in recent days, a makeshift being used to contain some of the heavy chemicals released into the water supply after a Norfolk Southern train derailed, overflowed back into the mainstreams that flow into the Ohio River and beyond.
However according to local reports Norfolk Southern and Governor Mike DeWine have continued to emphasis all is well and everything is under control.
‘Thomas A. Crosson, senior director of strategic communications with Norfolk Southern, said the dam area lies a mile and a half away from the derailment site, and that the derailment site remains contained,’ reports WTAE.
This water is not coming from the derailment site. We have purposely dammed this area to raise water levels to allow for aeration. In heavy rain events, those waters can rise and is not a reason for concern.
Crosson said
One resident in East Palestine told Cleveland 19 that he is now even more fearful of what could happen, building upon the endless anxiety he has. He adds that since the overflow the strong stench of the toxins have permeated the air again.
I fear that now the chemical is in the ground, it’s going to leach towards the water ducts, our aquifer for drinking water. I’m concerned that the park is now contaminated. Kids won’t be able to play there or walk through there on their way to school.
I have fear, I’ve had fear and now this just put the anxiety over the top.
They made this dam deep enough to pump the water out of the creek. They call them booms, so, it catches the chemicals before it goes further down the creek.
Eric Cozza said, who noted that he has been diagnosed with chemical irritation or rashes on his skin, as have others
But Governor DeWine says that the “dam did not fail.” According to an official update from DeWine’s desk published yesterday, DeWine’s administration wants the public to believe everything is fine and under control. He wrote in a statement:
The dam at the confluence of Sulphur Run and Leslie Run continues to work as expected. Although it may have appeared that the dam in this area was breached on Friday evening, the overflow of water was part of the mitigation plan to address the increase in water caused by heavy rains.
The dam did not fail.
As surface water accumulated in the flood plain area at the confluence of Sulphur and Leslie Runs, the dams there were modified to allow for water overflow. According to the Ohio EPA, the contractor created a depression in the dam to relieve the overflow and lower the water level, and vacuum trucks were then used to pull up the released water.
This mitigation work allowed the contractor to control the runoff in the derailment area, and the Ohio EPA does not believe that any visible contaminated waste was released into the streams. In fact, the water from the dammed area that was allowed to overflow had been tested daily prior to the storm and had shown very low or non-detectable dissolved contaminant levels.
Out of an abundance of caution, the ponded rainwater that was released was sampled before it was collected for disposal. Test results are expected in two to three days. Ohio EPA will continue daily stream monitoring.
Governor DeWine, the EPA, and Norfolk Southern have routinely downplayed the severity of the situation. DeWine has claimed that the water was safe to drink from for the longest time until social media and local press clearly refuted such claims; and with the EPA head once claiming that he would allow his children to drink and bathe in the water, to then only finally backtrack last week and advise the opposite.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs 29:2
These people – DeWine, the EPA, the goons at Norfolk Southern – are just evil Cretans that only care about the bottom line and protecting themselves. They could care less about the people involved. All DeWine and others have done have literally tried to contradict the irrefutable evidence right in front of them.
So now more of this garbage is seeping back into the main rivers that extend into the rest of the state and country; but the dam did not fail everyone, because Ratboy DeWine says it didn’t!
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Who wrote this claptrap, an illiterate 6th grader? Missing word, misspelled words, and horribly constructed run-on sentences abound.