2014 Elk River chemical spill official thread

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Check in, West Virginians! Do you live in the 9 county area where drinking water has been poisoned? I do. How are you doing? I've got a good supply of potable water here on our property, so we're luckier than most folks.

Here's a Wikipedia article about the crisis:

2014 Elk River chemical spill

The Elk River chemical spill occurred on January 9, 2014 when crude 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) was released from a Freedom Industries facility into the Elk River, a tributary of the Kanawha River, in Charleston in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The chemical spill occurred upstream from the principal West Virginia American Water intake and treatment and distribution center. Following the spill, up to 300,000 residents within nine counties in the Charleston, West Virginia metropolitan area were without access to potable water. The areas affected were Boone, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam, and Roane counties and the Culloden area of Cabell County. Crude MCHM is a chemical foam used to wash coal and remove impurities that contribute to pollution during combustion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill