🚨 Field Work, March 3-4, 2023 🚨
This week @PurdueAg @PurdueEngineers Prof. @caitlin_h2o, as well as students Rasul & @aliya_ehde visited the #Ohio and #Pennsylvania to sample creeks and understand "what's changed since last week".
Observations are below.
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During the trip, the team collected creek water from creeks upstream of the train derailment site, including in #Pennsylvania.
They also went to several other creeks in Ohio, no "sheens" were observed there.
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It was pouring out....
Kudos to Professor @caitlin_h2o for leading the team...
....in the #rain! 🌧️
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During their field work, they sampled upstream of the #chemicalspill site with the help of landowners.
Thank you!
Some of the locations were difficult to reach.
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Some of the creeks far away from the #chemicalspill and chemical #fires site were really beautiful.
They sampled for VOCs, SVOCs, and metals.
This information will help us understand background water quality levels (along with available information from elsewhere).
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The team did go to the intersection of Lesley Run and Bill Creek.
This is about 3 miles downstream from the #chemicalspill chemical #fires site.
They saw visible contamination like we saw last week upstream.
This indicates the chemicals were not all contained.
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When they drove through #EastPalestine #Ohio they saw a few signs which seemed to be newly installed.
These hopefully will encourage the public and visitors not to go near the heavily contaminated creeks.
They did a lot of walking and came across this sign.
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They collected a lot of samples, which will arrive in #Indiana late tonight.
Tomorrow, the samples begin to be analyzed by a whole host of faculty and students across multiple colleges @LifeAtPurdue.
We'll post results at PlumbingSafety.org when they're available.
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