Chemical Spill - Water System Contaminated

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I live about 500 miles downriver from this spill. Our river communities had to shut down their filtration plants.

This chemical was so potent that it can not be filtered from the water, even by a utility water plant!

It would pollute the entire facility and require shutdown of the plant for extensive cleanup and replacement of the filters. Most American plants use a reverse osmosis process with very expensive filters.

As the spill floated down the Ohio River each city shut down their filtration plant and closed the intake valves until the pollutant passed their area.

Keep in mind that this is a River as wide as the Thames (in London) at its confluence in Pennsylvania, gets wider as it progresses, and it progresses for 900 miles! It then joins the Mississippi river for another 1000 mile run to the Gulf of Mexico.

This spill affected the water supply of about 75,000,000 people including the cities of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis and New Orleans, each with more than a million residents, along with the countless small communities that draw water from the Ohio along the way.

If terrorists really wanted to make an impact.......