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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:18PM (#34885596)
Well, yes. But there was also several tank cars of acrylic ester that were breached and whose contents are now on the way into the groundwater. Anyone whose water is from a private well is not to be envied.
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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by xadhominemx on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:32PM (#34885805)
Are you talking about Ethylhexyl acrylate? Not very toxic outside of high dose acute exposures.
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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by jacquesm on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:38PM (#34885886)
> Not very toxic outside of high dose acute exposures

Such as when your well is contaminated...

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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by thatguy0900 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:40PM (#34885921)
Surely you would volunteer to drink low doses in all your drinking water for the rest of your life then?
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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by xadhominemx on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:51PM (#34886092)
If I drank private well water in east Palestine I would make sure that contamination was closely monitored and drink bottled water for a while. Drinking water from the tap? Yes I would do that.
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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:31PM (#34888605)
I take you have never handled acrylic esters - the stuff smells distressing, it's likely a sensitizer, and from its reactivity it just can't be good for you.
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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by xadhominemx on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @08:18PM (#34890220)
I was a chemistry major and spent a lot of time handling vocs in lab
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