Philadelphia officials are recommending residents use bottled drinking water following a chemical spill in the Delaware River that could potentially impact the water supply.
March 26, 2023, 7:37 PM UTC
"Contaminants have not been found in the system at this time but this is out of caution due to a spill in the Delaware River," it said. The alert comes after a pipe burst at Trinseo, a chemical plant in Bucks County, leading to a Friday night chemical spill that dumped about 8,100 gallons of “water soluble acrylic polymer solution," a latex finishing material, into Otter Creek, a tributary to the Delaware River, NBC Philadelphia reported.that the company"immediately shut down the intake to our Bristol water system as soon as we learned of the chemical spill, preventing customer exposure to hazardous materials.
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