Water Contamination – Is America Still a First-World Nation?

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

 

America is deteriorating so quickly that it’s hard to consider it a first-world nation due to the lack of clean drinking water. There was a massive chemical spill in Bristol, PA, on Friday. Officials failed to make an announcement until Sunday afternoon. Numerous people have sent me links saying they first learned about the chemical spill through TikTok, not traditional media. Over 1.5 million people call the Philadelphia area home, as it is the sixth-largest city in the US. The city sent out a mass text on Sunday, but the surrounding areas were not informed. At this time, the government is doing absolutely nothing to help.

The Philadelphia Water Department claimed that the tap water was safe to use until midnight on March 27, 2023. They claimed the water was safe for an additional day AFTER their mass text triggered panic buying. No one, absolutely no one, trusts the government, and there has been a massive run on the stores reminiscent of March 2020. The government claims that New Jersey has not been impacted, but they are urging NJ residents to conserve water. Don’t worry; they’re “monitoring the situation.”

 

How could a second major chemical spill occur one month after the incident in East Palestine, Ohio? The company responsible for this disaster is Trinseco PLC (TSE). This company contaminated the Baxter Drinking Water Plant after pouring between 8,100 and 12,000 gallons of toxic chemicals into Otter Creek, which flows into the Delaware River. Allegedly, this began when a pipe burst in Bristol, PA. “It hit the roof of a building, went down a gutter, from the gutter it went to a storm drain, from the storm drains it found another outfall basin, from there it started to leak into the river,” Tim Thomas, senior vice president of manufacturing and engineering at Trinseo, told reporters at ABC.

Tim Thomas seems to be controlling the narrative surrounding the disaster. “It’s like the material you find in paint,” said Thomas. “It’s your typical acrylic paint you have in your house, that’s what really this material is, in a water base.” What’s really in the water? Butyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, and methyl methacrylate–all volatile organic compounds that are extremely toxic.

We saw the extensive damage in East Palestine, Ohio, where people were forced to vacate their homes, the environment was destroyed, and countless pets and animals dropped dead. The long-term impact of that spill is unknown. There is no transparency around the situation in PA. The US Coast Guard claimed their resources are stretched thin since they’re still handling the “situation” in Ohio. The Biden Administration has done nothing to address the panic spreading across the northeast. They are not handing out water or visiting the area to quell fears. People are now forced to bathe in toxic water and ration whatever drinking water they can find. Perhaps the government would act if the people claimed Putin had dealings with Trinseo since they only care about the safety of their international allies.

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19 Comments
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid
March 28, 2023 6:50 am

“All I want to say is they don’t really care about us…….”

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 28, 2023 7:33 am

Water? What water?

Something Is VERY Wrong With The East Palestine Narrative—By Eric Coppolino
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/something-is-very-wrong-with-the
An early comment:
They are trucking 2 million gallons of East Palestine contaminated water to a Baltimore water treatment plant (that has questionable facilities), that will be treated and released into a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. This sounds like another totally insane idea.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
  Anonymous
March 28, 2023 1:13 pm

I’ve been in the environmental testing & remediation biz since 1989. Normally, the cleanup would be under state, not federal (EPA) supervision. That would be the case in NC, SC, GA, TN, WV & VA, the six states I’ve worked in. Doubt OH is any different.

This is absolutely the most bungled case of in-situ remediation ever.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  lamont cranston
March 28, 2023 3:27 pm

Trust the political science.

Boogie
Boogie
March 28, 2023 7:36 am

News Flash, America is not even a super power let alone a first world nation. Face it, where broke, morally and financially.

Spell CHEKA
Spell CHEKA
  Boogie
March 28, 2023 11:39 am

“we’re”

Why is there such a problem with contractions?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Spell CHEKA
March 28, 2023 12:05 pm

Maybe because only you give a fuck

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
March 28, 2023 3:28 pm

The problem is you and others not giving a fuck.

Spell CHEKA
Spell CHEKA
  Anonymous
March 28, 2023 3:49 pm

About the Commentariat; better accuracy, clarity and purposefulness of ideas is an enhancement and displays repect to the conversation here and anywhere else one is, virtually or in person.

About you?

comment image

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Spell CHEKA
March 28, 2023 5:01 pm

Those who don’t care about spelling and grammar should consider that it puts them on the same level as the inner city “I ax u, nowez wat I meanz” semi-literate morons.

They don’t care either….

Annie Gher
Annie Gher
  Anonymous
March 30, 2023 12:39 pm

If the idea was successfully communicated, who really cares about crossing Is, dotting Ts, punctuation….other than snobby elite types who think perfect grammatical English divides the good from the bad, the right from the wrong.

Do you demand that your mechanic writes in perfect English or is it more important to fix the car?

How about your green grocer?
The plumber or electrician?

If it doesn’t matter in hundreds of other daily interactions, why does it become a hill to die on here?

Look, I get it , I participated in that silly snobbery myself until I asked:

If the purpose of communication is to share an idea, and the idea was successfully shared, in spite of missing punctuation or mispelled words, why should I care?

I don’t want to be a snob.
________
That said, it is true that some people do not have sufficient skills to communicate and they typically occupy the melenin rings of societys.
For these?
I have nothing to do with them.
Our taxes paid for their education if they devalued it during their turn, the lifelong effects of being uneducated will be a heavier tax on them than any burden of actually working at a job.
_____
In a way, blacks are fucked by their own self defeating mentality to stick it to the white man, under the careful guidance of the descendants of the people who brought the nogs to the NW in the first place.

No race other than whites have ever tried as long and hard to lift up the black man.

That he has not lifted up in 500 years is a testament to the futility of the concept.

________
Dear cheka?
I promise to keep making unintentional mistakes into the foreseeable future.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Boogie
March 28, 2023 6:55 pm

We lost our 1st World status and standing when we started letting the 3d world invade US in the ’60s … and now there are many tens of millions of mexicans in the US, let alone the rest of the 3d world …

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
March 28, 2023 8:41 am

Babylon, oh Babylon! In one hour thy Judgment cometh, and the light of a single candle shall shine in thee no more.

Euddolen ap Afallach
Euddolen ap Afallach
March 28, 2023 9:40 am

What happens when one hires people to check political boxes instead of hiring the most qualified applicants?

Watch: The six o’clock news.

Guest
Guest
March 28, 2023 9:49 am

Why not send your water to local testing labs? Or citizen reporters interview them. Perhaps poison water is more exciting news than not poisoned water. We have 2 test labs close in this very rural area.
The really bad info from there leaves me suspicious as I don’t necessarily believeone person saying ALL ANIMALS ARE DEAD especially since they had ads hiring crisis actors. Others have gone there with different reports.

Of course the labs may have been told to lie like, it seems, every medical lab was told to pcr test incorrectly.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 28, 2023 3:09 pm

Is America Still a First-World Nation?

Some parts are……

But generally, no. Bordering on Banana Republic now.

Spell CHEKA
Spell CHEKA
  Anonymous
March 28, 2023 3:52 pm

not “boardering”? /s

No bordering here; USSA has become a People’s Democratic Socialist Banana Republic. And being so is very, very dangerous.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
March 28, 2023 6:58 pm

We lived in Honolulu in the early-’80s when heptachlor showed up in the local milk supplies in school lunches and elsewhere.

The State of Hawaii didn’t even mention the existence of the contamination for more than 2 months … and, when they did, they merely stopped selling the local dairy products.

Making it even more fun, though … in order to protect their local dairy farmers … they wouldn’t even allow proper milk in from the mainland … 

Call me Jack
Call me Jack
March 29, 2023 5:12 pm

So,are we a victim of an EEEEEvil conspiracy,or just the fallout from Affirmative Action?