Philadelphia tells residents to consider bottled water after chemical spill

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8,100 gallons of a chemical leaked into the Delaware River, a source of the city’s drinking water. Read more at straitstimes.com.

- Officials in Philadelphia on Sunday suggested residents consider using bottled water rather than tap water for drinking and cooking after a chemical spill into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of drinking water for about 14 million people across four states.

However, he said, “we cannot be 100 per cent sure that there will not be traces of these chemicals in the tap water”, adding that a low level of exposure would not endanger human health. “It’s like the material you find in paint,” Mr Tim Thomas, a vice-president at the Trinseo chemical plant, told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. “It’s your typical acrylic paint you have in your house. That’s what really this material is, in a water base.”

 

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