The Village of East Palestine officials continue to say the water quality is being closely monitored.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio - It has been a week since officials conducted a controlled chemical release following a train derailment in East Palestine.
“Per the EPA’s request the following Monday morning, we sampled for volatile organic compounds. That’s a list of all compounds,” Wolfe said. “All those results came back negative or below detection limits.”“I know there’s a lot of concern about it but, from my standpoint, we are hitting all our EPA limits and guidelines and that’s what I base my job off of,” Wolfe said. “It’s my job to provide clean water or it’s going to be me that’s going to be in trouble.
Hostetter lives two miles outside East Palestine. He said the creek that runs through his yard is contaminated.
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