Comments on: Spill Lesson: “Protecting Clean Water Is Not a Luxury” https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/01/13/spill-lesson-%e2%80%9cprotecting-clean-water-is-not-a-luxury%e2%80%9d/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: WSAZ Staff https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/01/13/spill-lesson-%e2%80%9cprotecting-clean-water-is-not-a-luxury%e2%80%9d/#comment-48534 WSAZ Staff Wed, 22 Jan 2014 04:58:58 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=10742#comment-48534 Another Chemical Found in Elk River after Recent Massive Spill January 21, 2014  By: WSAZ News Staff CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Another chemical was found in the Elk River after the massive spill that happened Jan. 9 and led to a several-day water usage ban for more than 100,000 West Virginia American Water customers in parts of nine counties. The chemical is called PPH and is used in conjunction with the MCHM that already had been identified. MCHM is used to clean coal, and PPH makes it even more fluid. State Homeland Security officials learned the information Tuesday morning after Freedom Industries, the company responsible for the leak, handed over some documents. The chemical has not been detected in tests that have been conducted by the U.S. National Guard. This latest round of testing will continue. At this point, officials say no new water bans or restrictions have been put into place as a result of this new information. From www.WSAZ.com Another Chemical Found in Elk River after Recent Massive Spill

January 21, 2014  By: WSAZ News Staff

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) — Another chemical was found in the Elk River after the massive spill that happened Jan. 9 and led to a several-day water usage ban for more than 100,000 West Virginia American Water customers in parts of nine counties.

The chemical is called PPH and is used in conjunction with the MCHM that already had been identified. MCHM is used to clean coal, and PPH makes it even more fluid.

State Homeland Security officials learned the information Tuesday morning after Freedom Industries, the company responsible for the leak, handed over some documents.

The chemical has not been detected in tests that have been conducted by the U.S. National Guard.

This latest round of testing will continue. At this point, officials say no new water bans or restrictions have been put into place as a result of this new information.

From http://www.WSAZ.com

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