contaminant is low enough that it s clean water, that it s safe for humans to drink. we ve been completely unable to get a good answer from any federal authorities to that question. if i can get that answer, and i m a united states senator, that suggests that the people of east palestine, who want to be cautious, have every right to do it. the simple fact is, tucker, that unless we go in and study the effect of vinyl chloride on human beings, we ll never be able to say with confidence what will happen to the residents of east palestine. they want to rebuild their community. they want to get back to normal life. they can t do it unless the government does its job. tucker: that s right. by the way, if you say you re an environmentalist and care about the environment, you should care about the air and soil and the water. climate is not the environment. j.d. vance, senator from ohio, who took the time to visit one of those his own communities, we appreciate it. thank you. thanks, tucke
testing, whether we re testing the water enough. the question that i have is why haven t they cleaned up the contaminated soil that s going to eventually contaminate the groundwater no matter what? tucker: so you ve been criticized for suggesting that maybe people who are still in east palestine drink bottled water, and that s scare mongering because apparently we should follow the signs and do what we re told. why would someone criticize you for counseling caution? you know, i have no idea, tucker. i think there s a complete refusal to deal with the fact that a lot of residents are freaked out on the ground. obviously people want to get back to their lives. we also want to know they re safe. what s very clear, if you talk to the epa, if you talk to the cdc, they cannot tell us what a clean threshold is for the water. so on the one hand you have to measure the water to know how much of this contaminant is in. on the other hand, you have to know at what level the
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plume is completely dissipated. it was never thought to be a threat but they could get slight detections. i want to mention that something i learned during this is the ohio river is monitored normally very extensively. and so they were able to pick up before they were able to pick up where the plume was, it was never thought to be very high. never thought to be very dangerous, but they could detect it as it moved down river. now we re told that they cannot detect it at all. to give you some idea of the numbers. the level of concern for this contaminant is 560 parts per billion. readings yesterday when we could still get a reading on it were under three parts per billion. so again, level of concern 560.
yesterday at three. today it is at 0. levels at which this chemical was in the ohio river have always been very low. we no longer getting readings at all. i m told that some water systems al along the ohio river will close intake lines for a while as a caution. there is no reason to be concerned about water now from the ohio river and there has never really been a reason of concern and we no longer can get any reading at all of this contaminant. let me go to the local creeks. we know there has been video played on tv circulating of visible physical contamination in one of the local waterways. a section of sulfur run that is very near the crash site remains severely contaminated. we knew this and know this. it is going to take a while to