East Palestine residents like Zsucsa Gyenes are hoping the U.S. EPA will continue to follow-up on air, water and soil testing in their community for the long run.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — East Palestine residents like Zsucsa Gyenes are hoping the U.S. EPA will continue to follow-up on air, water and soil testing in their community for the long-run, following the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment.
Gyenes said she has be closely following EPA test results on-line, which so far have shown no health concerns, but she's hoping there will be testing conducted by other agencies to back-up the EPA results. Gyenes pointed to a mobile lab put together by Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon Universities, which took air samples last week, and should post results by mid-March.
“In many different situations people will relate numbers without putting them in context," Chiu said. “The peak that we found in the data was about 40 times higher than what’s considered safe for long term exposure to Acrylate which is an irritant from production of combustion. The highest county in the United States according to the EPA analysis, the ratio was like 6."
On Feb. 28, U.S. EPA Administrator Debra Shore announced the deployment of its Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer mobile laboratory, which will conduct real-time air monitoring. “I don’t know that you can say it’s safe when you don’t know everything that is out in the air," Dattilo said."The PID meter is not sensitive to everything that’s exposed out there. It’s not sensitive to phosgene, it’s not sensitive to hydrogen chloride.”
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