On the evening of Sunday March 26, officials retracted a bottled water advisory made that morning. This advisory was issued after a pipe rupture at the Trinseo PLC chemical plant, which released about 8,100 gallons of an acrylic polymer solution into Otter Creek in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This incident took place around a month after a similar chemical leak from a train in East Palestine, Ohio.
Officials initially stated that although no contaminants had been found in the city’s water system, people should buy bottled water as a precaution. Residents rushed to purchase bottled water, emptying grocery stores. Philadelphia Deputy Managing Director for Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability Michael Carroll, said such measures were unnecessary and that rain and tidal conditions would flush out the river into the Delaware Bay.
By Leanne Auyeung