Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment

Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by MrOwnPut on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:25AM (#34790604)

Agreed on not losing your mind, that's never good to do, but downplaying it is too far on the other scale.

Seems too early to tell doesn't it? I don't think you can safely say "it would hardly register" without knowing the results from the contaminated regions...

Water Runoff

Responding crews discovered contaminated runoff on two surface water streams: Sulphur Run and Leslie Run. Under Ohio EPA oversight, Norfolk Southern emergency response contractors installed booms and underflow dams to restrict the flow of contaminated water as well as contain and collect floating product.

U.S. EPA took water samples at the streams and has sent them to a laboratory for analysis. Emergency response staff noticed impacted aquatic life and notified the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Department of Interior. Ohio DNR is on site and is assessing the situation and the impacts to aquatic life. Downstream water utilities were also notified.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by Workaccount2 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:32AM (#34790730)

It's seems most likely the run off is from the ruptured tanks, petroleum lube oil, diethylene glycol, polypropyl glycol, and butyl acrylates. And likely primarily the non flammable ones, the oil and the glycols.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by MrOwnPut on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:34AM (#34790778)

Interesting, do you have details on that, or is that a guess?

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by Workaccount2 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:38AM (#34790846)

Generally flammable things burn in a fire.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by MrOwnPut on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:11AM (#34791451)

So a guess then, that's disappointing. Generally things don't burn 100% perfectly.

Unless you were onsite testing what was in the runoff and have the results, you're speculating.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by Workaccount2 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:34PM (#34792849)

There is certainly runoff, the question is there enough to perpetually poison hundreds of billions of gallons of water and make it through water treatment.

Clearing the first hurdle is hard, clearing the second is even harder.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by legitster on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:28PM (#34793751)

I think this is more evidence of the effectiveness of our safeguards and procedures than anything else.

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