03-22-2009, 03:34 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
Eat your vegetables
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Pennsylvania Acid Spill
Do we have anyone on the TFP who was affected or knows anyone who was evacuated by the Pennsylvania hydroflouric acid spill? This article makes it sound like the authorities removed everyone from the vicinity quickly, but I'm curious how much this incident upturned residents' lives.
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03-22-2009, 05:46 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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That's a beautiful scenic stretch of Rt. 33 that I've been on plenty of times but I don't live close by...I'm about 70 miles due south. I think some of my fellow car forum buddies live close to there but nobody has posted about it yet, I even looked for posts after I saw your thread here.
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03-24-2009, 11:24 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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That's a sparsely populated area of Northampton County. I have been through there many times and have done some work at sites in the area. I have family not far from there who had no idea that the accident occurred.
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03-24-2009, 11:56 AM | #5 (permalink) |
Eat your vegetables
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Good to hear that there are few people who live in that region. I hope that there will be more communication about the spill so if any respiratory or other appilcable health concerns creep up later they will think to connect the two.
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03-24-2009, 04:36 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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There was a spill around my area like 20 years ago. One of my earliest memories is evacuating and going to the next county over. Since everything was closed there was nothing to do so we just set in the car for a few hours listening to the radio for when it was safe to go back home. I'm going to have to ask my parents if I'm remembering it correctly because I was quite young. They should remember what was spilled. I wanna guess it was chlorine or something..
Anyways, I've noticed my little area has a higher occurrence of certain cancers than neighboring places. With no proof, I've always suspected that had something to do with it.
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