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Originally Posted by George H.
Government officials learned of the spill after residents reported their water smelled/tasted like licorice??? You posted 24 hours ago and only today a state of emergency was declared? Who's in charge of this kind of thing I wonder. I guess it never occurred to the company to report that they'd just spilled a bunch of methane in the drinking water supply 
Hope you get some water soon  |
I've worked in chemical plants where if we had a release there was protocol of who we would call. Any amount would be a call to the Coast Guard (yeah, weird, but they were the ones in charge of that) and then given a certain amount we would have to start calling local authorities.
If it was bad enough that someone could smell and taste it in the water, that company either really messed up bad or there was a "I'm sure nobody will notice" type of thing.