Philadelphia Residents Told Not To Drink Tap Water After Major Chemical Spill In Delaware River

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Residents in Philadelphia have been swarming to local supermarkets to buy bottled water following a major chemical spill in the Delaware River.

More than 8,000 gallons of latex-based solution spilled into the Delaware River from a chemical plant in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on Friday night.

The huge spill caused Philadelphia city officials to send residents an emergency phone alert warning them not to drink their tap water.

GWP reports: The emergency alert sent residents of Philadelphia in a frenzy and caused them to flock to local supermarket stores in the area to stock up on water.

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City water  official’s later declared the the water in Philadelphia is safe to drink.

The Philadelphia Water Department  tweeted out “Based on updated hydraulic modeling and the latest sampling, we are confident tap water from the Baxter plant will remain safe to drink through 11:59 p.m. Monday, March 27. ”

Per NBC News:

Philadelphia officials Sunday afternoon rescinded their recommendation that residents use bottled drinking water following a toxic spill in the Delaware River.

The spill from a chemical plant upstream Friday night in Bucks County had prompted precautionary bottled-water alerts Sunday morning and afternoon, city officials said.

Testing determined there’s no contamination in the river near the intake for the city’s water system, nor in the system itself, Michael Carroll, a city deputy managing director, said an a video news conference early Sunday evening.

7 Comments

  1. I doubt anybody drinks tap water anywhere anyway. Hasn’t been drinkable for decades. Look its so putrid only foolish people woyle even touch it. It’s fit for laundry with special detergents and that’s about it.

    • IF you drank the H2O in LA CA you would`nt last a day!.More chemicals in it than ANYWHERE

  2. I started distilling my water years ago. You should see the distillate that is left over after a batch is made. wow. People need to start distilling their drinking water, no matter where you are. tap or well, distill! take mineral supplements. If you pass by this comment and don’t take heed. I am sorry for you. go to amazon, you can get a coffee maker sized distiller for less that 200 dollars.
    You can buy a home distiller put in the basement for 3000, does everthing automatically and pipe a tube up to your sink, and install a faucet in the soap dispenser whole. use that faucet for drinking water, use the regular faucet for cleaning.

    Please listen and pass this on. so very important.

  3. DISTILLING is NOT filtering and you will build up toxic deposits,Plus it strips everything away and when you drink distiilled H2o your body won`t get what it needs from the MODIFED H2O just like GMO`s

  4. REVERSE OSMOSIS is better but with either you will need to take essential minerals.With distilling you are building a toxic HOT spot out of your house as the steam from the boiler is TOXIC and it will build up until you are swimming in a toxic river anyway and if you breath that or clean that DOA!.DISTILLIED for years,years and years ago it don`t work If the H2O is bad thAN LEAVE IT TO THE PRos to clean and provide safe H20 with the proper essential minerals OR take them

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