Source: All of the internet.
It has taken days to get these notes together. So this posting is going to look messier than usual. Apologies.
The Notes:
From 1_10_2014
Confirmed @NotOnTwtr The spill originated from Freedom Industries
according to West Virginia American Water. http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=126630 …
West Virginia Public Media
reported that too http://wvpublic.org/post/state-emergency-water-advisory-issued-9-west-virginia-counties …. But good to get confirmation!
West Virginia Public
Broadcasting now has 4 links on the MCHM chemical spill: http://wvpublic.org/category/news ; http://wvpublic.org/post/noon-newscast-west-virginia-water-emergency-beth-vorhees-ashton-marra-dave-mistich-report … …
More on WV MCHM spill: http://wvpublic.org/post/5-things-we-dont-know-about-drinking-water-emergency-west-virginia, http://wvpublic.org/post/chemical-spill-leads-state-emergency-and-water-advisory-wvu-grads-energy-hopes-more, http://wvpublic.org/post/where-find-water-list-distribution-centers
According to this link
Freedom Industries did not report spill for 10 hours: http://wvpublic.org/post/5-things-we-dont-know-about-drinking-water-emergency-west-virginia W Virginia Public Media.
Here's the MSDS sheet
for 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, the chemical involved in @wvamwater contamination:http://t.co/2Y8Ad3481c
The MCHM could be a
blend with almost anything in it. Freedom Ind. lists Poca Blending affiliate: http://www.pocablending.com/services/default.htm …
Location of Freedom
Industries in West Virginia: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Freedom+Industries,+Barlow+Drive,+Charleston,+WV&hl=en&ll=38.362068,-81.613183&spn=0.010415,0.013797&sll=45.00109,-86.270553&sspn=9.616754,14.128418&oq=Freedom+Industries&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A … …
1% methanol in the
Eastman MCHM msds. Not sure of the stuff from Freedom Industries.
MCHM has a German CAS
file: http://www.tcichemicals.com/eshop/en/ch/commodity/M1412/ …. CAS # 34885-03-5. Other things blended in? But is free methanol
in it?
MSDS on the Chemical
spilled in W. Va: http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wvpn/files/201401/MSDS-MCHM_I140109214955.pdf … "Strong irritant". The methanol part is likely the
worst.
100K West Virginians
cannot use tap H2O due to chemical spill. http://avideos.5min.com//808/5180808/518080748_2.mp4 … Via Newsy. 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol.
Chemical spill in
West Virginia leads to tap water ban for 300,000 people | via @Telegraph http://fw.to/qDDrRyb
Updated 1_11_2014
"Update" 4 Hospitalized, Dozens
Seek Treatment After West Virginia Chemical Spill http://ti.me/1cOvU8R
via @TIME
Via AP: 4 HOSPITALIZED IN W. VA. AFTER
CHEMICAL SPILL: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHEMICAL_SPILL_WVA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-11-02-15-55
West Virginia chemical spill is in the
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill …
MCHM in the Wikipedia now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-methylcyclohexanemethanol …
4-methylcyclohexanemethanol. May or may not be fully accurate.
Freedom Ind. personnel may have had some
previous controversies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill#Background …
Freedom Ind. personnel may have had some
previous controversies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill#Background …
Via @Wikipedia
Elk River is the only known habitat of the diamond darter (fish): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_darter …
Mayor of Charleston, W.Va., says water
emergency is devastating his community - http://goo.gl/news/43mq via http://news.google.com/
AP PHOTOS: W.Va. stocks up on water after
spill - seattlepi.com http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/AP-PHOTOS-W-Va-stocks-up-on-water-after-spill-5132067.php?cmpid=twitter
via
@SeattlePI
FEMA page on W. Va. Chemical Spill (EM
3366) http://www.fema.gov/disaster/3366
Public Health Emergency Page from DH+HS FOR
WEST VIRGINIA http://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/wv-chemical/Pages/default.aspx
President Obama Signs West Virginia
Emergency Declaration | The White House: http://wh.gov/lIW3K
@whitehouse (Released 1/10.)
West Virginia Dept. of Environmental
Protection URL: http://www.dep.wv.gov/WWE/ee/hw/Pages/default.aspx
Ooh! The @USGS H20
Water Quality Assessment of West Virginia: http://water.usgs.gov/wid/html/wv.html
Service adds West Virginia fish to
endangered species list: http://www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2013/043.html#.UtGNESOJyzU.twitter
Service adds West
Virginia fish to endangered species list. July 25, 2013
Should the diamond darter be a symbol of the
spill?
Diamond Darter image: http://www.fws.gov/southeast/images/diamondDarter-.jpg
Credit/Source: US Govt. Work; Public Domain; Fish and Wildlife Service.
Freedom Industries web server is down? 8D pic.twitter.com/bGFfzC4sS1
@NotOnTwtr #lol you're right pic.twitter.com/bB4H5vI9ll
Post on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+AmandaRachelleWarren/posts/VAiVEZ717nG
Officials silent on water timetable - News - The Charleston Gazette - West
Virginia News and Sports - http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401110010
Bottled water for West Virginia residents
plagued by chemical in - KiiiTV3.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend http://www.kiiitv.com/story/24423917/bottled-water-for-west-virginia-residents-plagued-by-chemical-in-water-supply#.
FAKE BREAK NEWS Elk River nicknamed
"Sh*t Creek". Gov. Christie of NJ seen paddling up it...
Update 1_14_2014
Update 1_14_2014
Tweets (posted by Kenwardjr and HuffPostPol) on the WV
Chemical Spill seems to show that the WV and US Govt don't give a...
Three
years ago this month, @chemsafetyboard
urged WV to help Kanawha County set up chemical accident prevention program.
State said no.
John
Boehner on West Virginia chemical spill: "We have enough regulations"
http://huff.to/1d0zlJH
@NotOnTwtr
The area where the spill happened is known as 'Chemical Valley', West Virginia.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/13/hundreds-report-exposure-symptoms-in-w-va-after-crippling-chemical-spill/ …
1.
|
CNN-4 hours ago
That was the setup
in West Virginia last week when a chemical spill contaminated a river
supplying water to hundreds of thousands of people.
|
3.
NPR-3 hours ago
Google News has about 4100 news article
listed on the WV Chemical Spill if you search GN today... https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=chemical+spill&oq=chemical+spill&gs_l=news-cc.1.0.43j43i53.45246.48380.0.51083.14.5.0.9.9.0.78.337.5.5.0...0.0...1ac.1.1s3RmfcKD9A …
Department
of Defense
- 1 day ago
Hundreds of thousands of
people in nine West Virginia counties are unable to use their tap water
as a precaution following a chemical spill.
democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?...west-virginia-chemical...
23
hours ago - ... last week's toxic chemical
spill in West Virginia. Although Freedom Industries was storing
thousands of gallons of a potentially toxic chemical ...
louisvilleky.gov/.../West+Virginia+Chemical+Spill+Not+a+Concern+for+Lo...
19
hours ago - chemical
spill,
West Virginia, drinking water, Elk River, Ohio River.
www.csb.gov/csb-deploys-to-chemical-spill-in-charleston-wv/
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Cached
Washington
DC, January 11, 2014 – An investigative team from the U.S. Chemical
Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the scene of a massive spill into the
Elk ...
via @ColbertReport
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