Philly just got put on a bottled water alert

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6. NYT: Philadelphia Monitoring Water Supply After Chemical Spill

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/us/delaware-river-latex-chemical-spill.html

Philadelphia Monitoring Water Supply After Chemical Spill

More than 8,000 gallons of an acrylic polymer solution leaked on Friday into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of the city’s drinking water.

By Emily Schmall
March 26, 2023

Philadelphia officials on Sunday evening stepped back from a suggestion earlier in the day that residents consider using bottled water rather than tap water for drinking and cooking after a chemical leaked into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of drinking water for about 14 million people across four states.

The previous advisory, issued on Sunday morning, came after a pipe ruptured at Trinseo PLC, a chemical plant, late on Friday, sending about 8,100 gallons of a water-soluble acrylic polymer solution into Otter Creek in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia, officials said.

Officials emphasized that contaminants had not been found in the city’s water system.

Officials said residents, out of an abundance of caution, could consider buying bottled water because, they said, it could not “be 100 percent sure that there won’t be traces of these chemicals in the tap water throughout the afternoon.”

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