Nobody wants or need a bunch of youtubers and truthers in there drinking creek water. They are still dealing with it.
Clearly there’s no need for any accountability or truth in a situation that is costing livestock 10 miles away from the site and a mass amount of carcinogenic chemicals being introduced into a community that has proven to have ghastly health effects on humans.
Here’s a little truth for you about rail yards and the EPA.
The EPA sent a team to the Elkhart Indiana Conrail yard in 1991. Reports of ground water contamination and vapor in residents in the area due to spills from the rail yard is what got them to show up. The reason I bring this up is I saw 3 sides to the story, my sister lived near that yard, I had direct conversations with the crew from the EPA doing the study and I was dating the #2 guy in charge of that rail yard.
Here’s the 5 year follow up plan from the EPA with details.
https://semspub.epa.gov/work/HQ/178897.pdf
If you notice the dates the largest spill happened 2 years before the EPA responded to complaints. The rail road negotiations with the EPA broke down several times because Conrail did not want to clean it up or pay for it. So the initial report went out in 1991 minus several findings from the EPA crew and the actions the EPA demanded of Conrail were complete in 1997.
Several things happened as a result. Property values in that area plummeted, couldn’t sell those homes and people were stuck with what was the nastiest tasting water that was contaminated and carcinogenic. The railroad brought in Culligan drinking water for their employees.
Low and behold the cancer rates in that area became extremely notable by 2008. The hematology/oncology teams were not winning the battle. Funny enough the patients were centered around the Conrail yard. Noted in the report from the EPA it did not consider the spills to be of any environmental hazard even though the yard has a direct run off to the St Joseph River. No one eats anything caught in that river because all the area residents know it’s still being contaminated to this day.
If you think the whole truth ever comes out from a .gov agency or a rail yard, you are delusional.
I’ll wait 10 years to see what happens to the residents of this town in Ohio but I don’t actually think it will take that long as this “spill” is 10 times worse chemically and environmentally than Elkhart. I highly doubt any EPA actions will help these people and the railroad could give a **** less about these people and their health or losses. It will become a superfund site and be dealt with in typical gov fashion… in 10 years.