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Even before last week's chemical spill fouled tap water in nine counties ... Indeed, people who live in the Kanawha River Valley, which much of the world learned recently is also known as Chemical ...
At least 100,000 customers in nine West Virginia counties were told not to drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using their tap water because of a chemical spill ... River flows into the Kanawha ...
(WCHS) — For months, Eyewitness News has been covering the Paint Creek chemical spill to try to get answers ... to the mouth of Paint Creek to the Kanawha River." All this happened while anxious ...
Earl Ray Tomblin urged water customers in the southwest counties of Kanawha ... the spill posed to residents. It also was not immediately clear how much of the chemical spilled into the river ...
Shortly after the Thursday spill from Freedom Industries hit the river and a nearby ... McIntyre said the chemical isn't lethal in its strongest form. Kanawha County emergency officials said ...
Randy Huffman of the DEP said that the grimy byproduct, known as “coal slurry,” leaked into the Kanawha River as ... for blackwater spills is going down.” The second chemical spill comes ...
Nearly a year after the Freedom Industries chemical spill on the Elk River contaminated ... possibly on the Kanawha River, could cost between $70 million and $150 million. Jan. 1 is the deadline ...
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A cold, crisp morning greeted residents in West Virginia's capital city 10 years ago today, but it didn’t take long for people to realize something wasn’t ...
A month after a chemical spill threatened West Virginians' water supply, the state is facing a fresh disaster. Coal slurry spilled into a creek on Tuesday that flows into the Kanawha River after a ...
West Virginia chemical spill affected water for 300,000 ... spilled into the Elk River just upstream from the Kanawha County municipal water intake in Charleston, West Virginia, according to ...