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- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:13:08 -0500 (EST)
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Weeks Later, More Questions Than Answers In W.Va. Chemical Spill
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Weeks Later, More Questions Than Answers In W.Va. Chemical Spill
by Daniel Zwerdling
January 31, 2014 3:02 AM
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/31/269006655/
weeks-later-more-questions-than-answers-in-w-va-chemical-spill
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/mng4pe4
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State officials in West Virginia say they can no longer detect any of the
industrial chemical that spilled recently, called MCHM, in most areas.
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They say based on federal guidelines, the water is safe for people to
drink and use; including most pregnant women. But other public health
specialists say they don't trust those assurances.
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One of those specialists is Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the Kanawha
Charleston Health Department, the largest public health department in West
Virginia. Gupta is in charge of protecting 250,000 people whose water was
affected by the spill.
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When asked if he felt confident that federal health officials know what
levels of these chemicals are safe or not, Gupta says that question was
"debatable."
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"I think there's no way to know what the safe levels of the chemicals are
at this point," he says.
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In fact, Gupta says his own family doesn't trust the water supply no
matter what federal and state officials say. Gupta and his wife, who is
also a physician, have two teenaged sons. He says the water in their home
still has that chemical smell of licorice.
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"They have decided not to drink the water at this time," Gupta says. "I
have personally tried to drink the water. The smell just ... prevents me
from drinking the water, unfortunately."
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Too Many Known Unknowns
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It has been more than three weeks since the chemicals spilled into the
drinking water in West Virginia, and public health specialists in
government, in universities and in public interest groups say there are
still more troubling questions than answers about whether the spill might
affect public health.
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Not to mention the fact that no one knows for sure exactly which
chemicals, and how much, really spilled. The company first said it was
5,000 gallons of MCHM, and then they said more like 7,500. Now they're
saying it probably was more like 10,000 gallons. Plus, it turns out
another chemical leaked too, called PPH.
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"It feels a bit like a Keystone Cops episode, where one crazy thing is
followed by another," says Richard Denison, a toxicologist at the
Environmental Defense Fund. He's served on advisory boards for the federal
government and for the chemicals industry.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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