A truck carrying a ton of poisonous soil out of the prepare derailment zone in East Palestine tipped over in an accident this week … however the native EPA says there’s nothing to fret about when it comes to contamination.
Per legislation enforcement, a tractor-trailer was heading northbound Monday on SR-165 in Columbiana County — which encompasses East Palestine — and for no matter purpose … it was concerned in a crash that overturned the car and all the things it was carrying.
As it seems, that load included about 40,000 lbs. of contaminated filth that was being transferred away from the prepare derailment crash web site … and the Ohio State Highway Patrol estimates that about 20,000 kilos of that spilled into onto the roadway.
It’s unclear what brought about the truck to run into bother … however first responders arrived on the scene to include the state of affairs. The Ohio EPA says there isn’t a risk to close by waterways because of the tipping. The driver is claimed to have suffered minor accidents.
It’s not nice information contemplating the group there may be nonetheless reeling from the horrific crash from again in February — to not point out the native authorities’s determination to do a managed burn of the chemical compounds onboard, which have reportedly affected lots of people on the bottom.
The cleanup effort is clearly nonetheless underway … however the mishaps proceed.