zones as part of the plan to flush out the entire system. we re still providing water, working with fema and voluntary agencies to make sure that the people that are in those impacted areas still have water this morning. this is starting to affect other states as well. for example, ohio, kentucky, cities within the states that have turn eed off intake valves because they don t want this chemical to taint their water supply. my understanding from talking to representatives with the core of engineers is they have been following this column of water. the last intake in west virginia that bypasses in huntington and amount of product was negative yesterday. still this is affecting a lot of people.
these storage tanks haven t been inspected since 1991. how can that be? the facility there doesn t come under our jurisdiction. that facility is not one of the regulated facilities that has normal inspections like that. supposedly it s because the chemical stored there is by definition, a pollutant not a hazardous chemical. i don t get that. wouldn t it be hazardous if it goes in the water supply and you can t drink the water or be severely sick? i m having a hard time hearing you. i think you re asking the difference between a pollutant and hazardous material. this product, based on what we ve seen, we ve taken every precaution everyone felt was necessary to insure the public was protected. you know, part of that is part of our emergency response plans was to take care and provide
these tanks be inspected more often? why wouldn t there be more regulations in place to make sure this kind of thing doesn t happen? why are we putting faith in companies, our trust? this is a product stored at a chemical facility. not at a coal mine or directly at a coal mine. we were fortunate this product wasn t more hazardous. as part of the review of this, we ll look at where products are stored, not only this type of product but others and how we can do things better. i m sure our environmental protection will provide the properly proposals to our investigator to change any laws they think needs to be changed. so people understand, this chemical was used to clean coal. i wanted to make that clear to our audience. jimmy, thank you for joining us