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
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 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 th
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 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 th
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. But some dont believe them. Weve come to meet a group of volunteers whove been distributing clean water to people who still dont trust the tap water. Twice a week, they make a 2 hour trip to fill a