Just like the towns in Texas and Michigan, a small farming community in Sandusky County is feeling blindsided after finding out that liquid hazardous waste from East Palestine are on their way.
They tell News 5 Investigators no one gave them a heads up and either found out through the grapevine or on the news.
The federal EPA is allowing Norfolk Southern to send some of the contaminated liquid to Vickery Environmental. The Sandusky County EMA said Vickery will receive about three to four loads of overflow water per day. "It's just not right just because we live out in the country or whatever they can get away with — just send it to Vickery, there's no one around — but there's a lot of us around here,” John Smarsh said.
He also has a lot of concerns including haul routes, whether the trucks are inspected first, and the liquid waste itself, especially being so close to Sandusky Bay. "What we want is information. I don't know whether we can stop it or curtail it, but we can at least have the knowledge of what's going on out there, what we need to do,” Steager said.
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