Water-relief tankers filled from tainted WV water system
Source: Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia American Water pulled its bulk water tankers out of service in Kanawha County Thursday evening, after complaints that the water being distributed to residents had the same odor as the chemical-tainted water from last week's Freedom Industries spill into the Elk River.
Kanawha County Manager Jennifer Sayre said complaints began coming in late Thursday afternoon about the now-familiar licorice odor in water given out at the Crossings Mall in Elkview and at Riverside High School.
"We were getting conflicting information as to where [those tankers] were filled," Sayre said Thursday evening. "We wanted to clear that up."
According to Sayre, county officials originally were told the tankers were being filled "off site, out of Charleston." After hearing complaints, though, they checked again with West Virginia American Water officials, who told them to take the tankers out of circulation, Sayre said.
Read more: http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401160024
Can we gets the feds to come in here and take over this mess? It's clear that, as usual, our local "leaders" have no idea what they're doing.
I'm one of the lucky ones who is on an independent water system and not affected. My parents flushed their system yesterday and said the fumes made their eyes burn.
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another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 17, 2014, 02:24 PM - Edit history (1)
This is inexcusable. Bring in the Feds for sure, the E.P.A. and the F.B.I. Someone needs to go to jail.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)sadly it is too believable to make up
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)WTF?
Where the hell is the company "Freedumb". They need to contribute to this by providing clean water as well.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)ever since this PR disaster:
I hear they're lawyering up
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Isn't he?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)
jsr
(7,712 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)
Botany
(70,504 posts)n/t
Lasher
(27,597 posts)An empty bus.
Botany
(70,504 posts)Because they don't want you to kill the state bird.
*******
BTW I love W.V. and have spent a lot of time there.
BTW part 2 ..... I have heard the exact same W.V. / Ohio jokes in other parts of the country
and world .... In Utah they tell Idaho jokes .... in Australia they tell New Zealand jokes and so on.
The jokes are the exact same except for the area that is made fun of.
MadCrow
(155 posts)Years ago I saw a cartoon in "The New Yorker" magazine. In the background it pictured a 'typical' WV house- old falling down house with a wringer washer on the porch, old-broken down truck in the driveway and flames shooting out of the roof of the house. In the fore-ground was your 'typical' hillbilly- old farmer in bib overalls sitting under a tree with a jug of moonshine and a hound-dog beside him. When asked if he wasn't going to do something about his house burning down he said, "I am. I'm praying for rain!"
This is the kind of image that perpetuates the myth about WV. I live here and these are good people even if they do drive me crazy times!
Botany
(70,504 posts)You do have to admit that pumping water from the same source
that was polluted to get people "clean water" isn't the smartest
thing to do.
Forgot the part about a shotgun being propped up against the tree!
Seriously though, my daughter works for WV Air Quality Control in Charleston, and it was a man in her office who discovered the spill when he went out Thursday morning in response to a call they had received about the 'licorice' smell. She has told me what a hard job she has just trying to enforce the laws that are on the books, and how large a role WV politics plays in their implementation.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)WVA, it was a common to be asked the question, "What's the capitol of WVA? Akron." Then there were more WVA'ns in Akron than Charleston, because of the work in the tire factories.
Lasher
(27,597 posts)I was really thirsty but I soon regretted taking the chance. The overwhelming taste matched the now-familiar chemical smell. Don't drink the water.
watoos
(7,142 posts)shopping at Walmart.
IcyPeas
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Baitball Blogger
(46,711 posts)This sounds like government negligence or incompetence.
taotzu
(44 posts)I am sorry but I live in Ohio and have seen how corporations in West Virginia run rough shod over the population. This is due to the very low educational intelligence in the state that continues to complicate matters. The majority of the population knows nothing else but working in the coal mines and at chemical plants that inevitably cause harm to the masses. These people are afraid of offending the corporation and thus losing their jobs so they keep quiet and let the corporations herd them like sheep. I feel for these people as all of us do but they have got to come to the realization that nothing will be done until they stand up and claim the state for the people. They have to stop voting against their own interests and begin voting for politicians that are going to work for the people and not for the corporations.
In West Virginia the EPA is hated and people will not talk to them about illnesses that they have acquired from the places that they work. I understand they need the jobs but please they also have the right to work in safe environments. The Federal government will get involved only and if the population would turn their emphasis from blind acceptance to heart felt disdain for the circumstances they find their families in, until this happens the people of West Virginia will continue to live in isolation as they do today.
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)...is a terribly helpful policy position. And you "feeling for these people" isn't going to help them a whit.
Corporations and industries do this all the time -- place their really awful, horrible, polluting factories/plants/warehouses in really really really poor areas/communities/neighborhoods, because they know damn well that worrying about the quality of the water/air/ground is less important to the residents than figuring out how to feed their kids. When you're poor, you usually don't have the luxury of "offending the corporation." It's not about "educational intelligence" (I'm not really clear on what that is, btw), it's about the securing the necessities of survival, Maslow's hierarchy of needs brought to life.
Hekate
(90,690 posts)Baalzamon
(21 posts)incompetence.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)And what aren't the 'freedom industries' fuckwits not making a perp walk?
starroute
(12,977 posts)They'd rather cover their asses and protect their profits than actually fix the problem.
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happyslug
(14,779 posts)Bacteria was NOT used prior to 1881, Bacterium was first used in 1838:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bacteria
Merrian-Webster Bacteria first use is 1881:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bacteria
Merrian-Webster Bacterium first used in 1838:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bacterium
Thus you "Quote" used a word NOT invented for 89 years after Franklin's death in 1790 AND root word only invented 48 years after Franklin's death.
In fact the entire Germ base concept of disease was invented post 1830s, prior to the goal of Doctors was to maintain "balance" in the human body for an imbalance of "Humors" is what the prevailing theory held that made people sick.
More on the "Humors"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism
jberryhill
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Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Don't let the off the hook with that "ignorance" story, it's not ignorance, it's willful deception.
