300,000 People in West Virginia Have Toxic Running Water
Last week, a chemical company poisoned a major West Virginia water supply so thoroughly that FEMA has been dispatched to clean things up.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has dispatched FEMA to assist West Virginia's clean-up of Freedom Industries' toxic chemical spill on Thursday, by which the specialty chemical-producer released 5,000 gallons (think: an above-ground swimming pool) of 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol into the Kanawha Valley's water treatment intake near Charleston. West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a statewide disaster late last week, mobilizing the National Guard to distribute bottled water throughout the afflicted areas. Supermarket shelves are, for the part, dry.
The spill affects 100,000 households—about 300,000 residents—according to the West Virginia American Water Company.
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