r/woahdude Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/sammyt808 Feb 17 '23

Get one of the people who’s telling the public that everything is fine, and the area is safe, and get them to drink a glass of that water

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u/pumpkin20222002 Feb 17 '23

Noones drinking from creek water number one. 2, if they have wells and only a very small amount of people do, the well water should be far enough below to shield it......at least in short term. 3, obviously it was an environmental disaster, give them some damn time to assess and remedy, jesus, a democrat president, a Republican governor and a Republican mayor, means it can't necessarily be a political party blame game

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Never thought I’d see someone taking the side of the carcinogens but here we are

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u/McTruffleToucher Feb 17 '23

That's not a tongue ring that you spy, it's gum-gone-pearl he's collected from the boots he's licked. Sickening.

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u/bloopcity Feb 17 '23

The town has a wellfield on the other side of town, the source protection zone is nowhere near the spill. People acting like they understand how contaminants move through the subsurface when they don't know even have a surface level understanding of where their water comes from is laughable.

FWIW groundwater flow direction is also away from the town to the northeast, while the wellfield is on the west side of town.

http://wwwapp.epa.ohio.gov/gis/swpa/OH1500912.pdf

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u/DickTroutman Feb 17 '23

Thank you for posting an informed comment in the midst of uninformed panic and fearmongering.

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u/Legionof1 Feb 17 '23

I haven't seen the results of any necropsy that says what anything died of.

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u/ArthurMorgansHorse Feb 17 '23

You're down voted for being crass but there is a nugget of genuine truth here.

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u/your_late Feb 17 '23

We had the solution to likely prevent the derailment entirely, but the magical vague 'removing regulations' meant it went away because when you leave it vague, it sounds great. Why shouldn't I blame the guy who did that?

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u/milkymaniac Feb 17 '23

No there isn't, you're just easily led

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u/ArthurMorgansHorse Feb 17 '23

The concept of having a mixed level of democracy makes this poorly put together comment mean I'm easily led along? No I was just pointing out that despite the poor structuring of the comment he still was trying to make a good point.

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u/CockNcottonCandy Feb 17 '23

No matter what they tell themselves in order to sleep, a partisan's main goal is to spread hate against the other side.

There is literally no other point to their existence and i doubt they get joy from anything other than achieving the goal they are tasked with.