Chemical Spill in PA

drinking water was safe.

“Based on updated water sampling results received overnight, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) remains confident that tap water from the Baxter Drinking Water Treatment Plant remains safe to drink and use at least through 11:59 p.m., Wednesday,” a Tuesday news release from Mayor Jim Kenney’s office said.

At least one of the leaked chemicals, butyl acrylate, is among the contaminants of concern identified in last month’s derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio.

that residents should have three days of water on hand as a precautionary measure in case contaminants are discovered in the city’s supply. The mayor recommended filling bottles and pitchers with tap water.

Not all Philadelphia residents receive water from the Baxter plant. The city’s two other treatment facilities are fed by the Schuylkill River, which the city says was not impacted by the spill.

Terror in Nashville

Approximately 8,100 gallons of water-soluble acrylic polymer solution was released into the Delaware River on Friday night as a result of an “equipment failure” at a plant that makes acrylic resins.

The spills occurred just a few miles upstream from a key water intake for Philadelphia’s Baxter Water Treatment Plant.

Immediately after the spill, authorities rushed to assure the public that the

Still, the city maintains that no contaminants have been found in any of Philadelphia’s water after Friday’s chemical spill. The Philadelphia Water Department expects there will no longer be contamination in the river by Wednesday or Thursday.

Despite assurances, many residents have scrambled to buy bottled water from grocery store shelves that quickly sold out. Many have expressed concerns about potential hazards as well as frustration and confusion over officials’ repeated statements that the city’s water is safe after initially asking residents to drink bottled water as a precaution.

On Monday, officials reiterated advice

Six people were killed at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday in a mass murder perpetrated by Audrey Hale, 28, a former student at the school.

Three of those killed were children. One of them was 9-year-old Hallie

Scruggs, the daughter of the pastor whose church runs The Covenant School. Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney were also nine years old.

Hale also slaughtered Head of School Katherine Koonce; Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher; and Mike Hill, 61, a custodian.

The Covenant School in Nashville has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members.