The EPA steps in and says wait a minute before any more of that contaminated Ohio water comes to Deer Park.
EPA Regional 5 Administrator Debra Shore is accompanied by officials from the Ohio EPA to provide updates about the call to pause transportation. The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the continuation of transportation of some of the water and soil from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment to two Ohio locations.
To ensure the quality of the community’s drinking water, water monitoring wells will be installed along the derailment site to detect any contaminants in the water throughout the disposal process, Shore said.identify additional transportation options.The Environmental Protection Agency has hit pause on all further transportation of the contaminated water used to fight the fire at the Norfolk Southern train derailment that occurred on February 3 in East Palestine, Ohio.
Initial transportation of 500,000 gallons of the wastewater to Texas Molecular occurred two weeks ago – without any communication to Harris County officials until a week after it arrived.
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