Last Updated on June 24, 2024 at 9:30am
The Morning Journal published a story about East Palestine beginning service of their new carbon filtration system. The city council first announced plans to install the carbon-filtration system during a March 2023 meeting.
The carbon filters, bought by Norfolk Southern and manufactured by Calgon, are a precautionary measure for the municipal water supply. East Palestine’s municipal water supply was tested weekly for 190 chemicals, including both volatile organic compounds and semi-volatile organic compounds and glycols using a sentinel-well system — 20-plus sentinel wells were installed between the known area of contamination and the village’s wellfield. To date, no derailment-related chemicals have been detected in raw or treated water.
East Palestine Water Superintendent Scott Wolfe said that carbon filters were the direction the village was headed before the derailment and stressed the filters, which comply with the new federal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) guidelines, were a proactive approach taken by the village.
Read more in the story linked below.