West virginia. Water is scarce following a warning from West Virginias governor, do not drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using tap water. ,. Chemical leak, a chemical used to clean coal, leaked from a storage facility. The States Health Department Says the water was contaminated with a potentially harmful chemical, mchm. A federal investigation is ongoing but this spill was just the most visible of many incidents in West Virginia where, in the past decade, the coal industry has recorded thousands of water violations. Fault lines has come here to find out how the states main industry affects its most vital resource. Little testing have been done on the chemical that leaked from these tanks into the river just below. After the spill Freedom Industries declared bankruptcy and theyre supposed to remove the tanks from the bank, but a lot of people want the tanks to remain there because they say theyre the best evidence of what is a crime scene. Officials say the water is now safe to drink
Largest Water Treatment plant in West Virginia. Water is scarce following a warning from West Virginias governor, do not drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using tap water. ,. Chemical leak, a chemical used to clean coal, leaked from a storage facility. The States Health Department Says the water was contaminated with a potentially harmful chemical, mchm. A federal investigation is ongoing but this spill was just the most visible of many incidents in West Virginia where, in the past decade, the coal industry has recorded thousands of water violations. Fault lines has come here to find out how the states main industry affects its most vital resource. Little testing have been done on the chemical that leaked from these tanks into the river just below. After the spill Freedom Industries declared bankruptcy and theyre supposed to remove the tanks from the bank, but a lot of people want the tanks to remain there because they say theyre the best evidence of what is a crime scene. Officials s
You more like it next week on techno. Follow our contributors on twitter, facebook, google and more. The mountains of West Virginia have provided generations with jobs in coal. But on january 9th, 2014, the state woke up to an example of the costs of its industrial economy. A tank containing a chemical used the process of Coal Production had leaked its contents into the elk river, just a mile upstream from the largest Water Treatment plant in West Virginia. Water is scarce following a warning from West Virginias governor, do not drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using tap water. ,. Chemical leak, a chemical used to clean coal, leaked from a storage facility. The States Health Department Says the water was contaminated with a potentially harmful chemical, mchm. A federal investigation is ongoing but this spill was just the most visible of many incidents in West Virginia where, in the past decade, the coal industry has recorded thousands of water violations. Fault lines has come here to
Just a mile upstream from the largest Water Treatment plant in West Virginia. Water is scarce following a warning from West Virginias governor, do not drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using tap water. ,. Chemical leak, a chemical used to clean coal, leaked from a storage facility. The States Health Department Says the water was contaminated with a potentially harmful chemical, mchm. A federal investigation is ongoing but this spill was just the most visible of many incidents in West Virginia where, in the past decade, the coal industry has recorded thousands of water violations. Fault lines has come here to find out how the states main industry affects its most vital resource. Little testing have been done on the chemical that leaked from these tanks into the river just below. After the spill Freedom Industries declared bankruptcy and theyre supposed to remove the tanks from the bank, but a lot of people want the tanks to remain there because they say theyre the best evidence of what
Just a mile upstream from the largest Water Treatment plant in West Virginia. Water is scarce following a warning from West Virginias governor, do not drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using tap water. ,. Chemical leak, a chemical used to clean coal, leaked from a storage facility. The States Health Department Says the water was contaminated with a potentially harmful chemical, mchm. A federal investigation is ongoing but this spill was just the most visible of many incidents in West Virginia where, in the past decade, the coal industry has recorded thousands of water violations. Fault lines has come here to find out how the states main industry affects its most vital resource. Little testing have been done on the chemical that leaked from these tanks into the river just below. After the spill Freedom Industries declared bankruptcy and theyre supposed to remove the tanks from the bank, but a lot of people want the tanks to remain there because they say theyre the best evidence of what