Philadelphia Officials Tell Residents to Avoid Tap Water After “Non-Toxic” Chemical Spill


It’s not toxic, goy.

But just to be on the safe side, start collecting tap water now so you don’t get cancer from this poison.

CBS Philadelphia:

The Philadelphia Water Department says tap water is safe to drink in the city through 11:59 p.m. Monday after a chemical spill in Bristol Township, Bucks County.

The water department, though, is warning residents should be prepared for some problems Tuesday.

“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,” the water department wrote in a tweet.

The water department says the updated time is based on when the Baxter Drinking Water Treatment Plant will take river water to move through treatment and water mains before it reaches customers.

The water concerns do not affect the entire city. The areas in orange, east of the Schuylkill River, would be the potentially impacted areas. Those in the green, west of the Schuylkill, are not impacted because they receive water from a different source.

The spill of a latex product occurred Friday night in Bristol Township at Otter Creek. Between 8,000 and 12,000 gallons of acrylic latex polymer were released by a chemical processing plant.

The company that owns the plant, Trinseo PLC, is blaming the spill on equipment failure.

Officials say acrylic latex polymer is non-toxic to humans.

Dr. Arthur Frank, an environmental public health expert from Drexel University, says the material is probably so diluted it won’t be dangerous to the water system.

Dr. Tim Bechtel, a professor of geoscience at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, echoed a similar sentiment.

Bechtel says the city’s recommendation is appropriate and cautious, and that families should not panic but rather plan ahead until the threat passes.

Collect city water now,” Bechtel said, “and have a nice stockpile of water that you will be drinking and cooking with.”

The earlier advisory was issued out of an abundance of caution, the water department said.

We live in a cyberpunk dystopia, with these corporations ruling over us and poisoning us and the only people with any quality of life being those willing to serve the corporate overlords.

The unbelievable part is that these corporations claim to believe in communism, and want to change the weather and exterminate white people. That’s not how it was in cyberpunk fiction.