Deer around Ohio Train Derailment area

[raisins]

If it has five legs or two heads I would pass.

or you look close and it has pressure ratings on the side (PVC joke)

 

[raisins]

I get it, I'm not like pro-pollutiom but it crashed right next to the Ohio River. Last I checked water doesn't flow upstream, and there is very minimal groundwater exchange in the geology of that area. The river is impounded so heavier contaminants will settle into the silt.

I don't think a molecule being more massive than a water molecule in moving water guarantees that it's going to settle out. Otherwise, we wouldn't find so many things in the water on both sides of dams and far from point of contamination. You might be referring to density and maybe after adhesion to organics in the river or something. I don't know how all these things and their byproducts are going to react with river water and the mud and other particles within it.

It's difficult to remove chemicals from water even when you have a treatment plant designed specifically to remove a certain group of contaminants.

For instance, a regular water treatment plant will not remove much tannic acid (which is a huge molecule), unless you slice the molecule and then apply a coagulant.

I think it is too complex and unknown at this point.

 

[ThePennsylvanian]

I would have no second thoughts. Acute air pollution from a singular event is hardly even a concern unless you are right on the source, and the air movement from there is into PA, not OH. The water, one good spring rain and this is the Louisiana Delta's problem.

Gonna have to agree with this, there is potential for this to be a long term problem in the immediate area in town, but like elkyinzer said, this will be other peoples problems unfortunately...