City Water Declared Safe When It Wasnt
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City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 25 East Palestine Ohio 2023 vinyl chloride released in train derailment EPA declared water safe within
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORget On February 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern Railway vented and burned 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride in East Palestine, Ohio—enough to fill 27 railro…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 24 Camp Lejeune 1953-1987 Marines and families drank contaminated water for 34 years VA denied health c
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET Between 1953 and 1987, the United States Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina supplied drinking water to its personnel and their famil…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 23 Cape Fear River North Carolina PFAS contamination discovered by academic researchers not regulatory
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2013, researchers at North Carolina State University detected per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—a class of toxic "forever chemicals" link…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 22 Woburn Massachusetts 1979 industrial solvent contamination city resisted acknowledging link to child
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1979, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) tested Woburn’s drinking water and found trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 21 Tucson Arizona 1980s TCE contamination from military base EPA delayed Superfund designation
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1985, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tested water from Tucson, Arizona’s south-side wells and found trichloroethylene (TCE) levels…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 20 Benton Harbor Michigan 2021 lead levels exceeding Flint at peak state slow to declare emergency
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2018, Benton Harbor, Michigan—population 9,103—recorded lead levels in its drinking water at 889 parts per billion (ppb), more than 59 times the f…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 19 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 2016 lead levels exceeded federal action level water authority disputed resu
Pittsburgh’s Water Was Poisoned While Officials Said It Was Safe THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2016, Pittsburgh’s water authority tested lead levels at 22 parts per billion—nea…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 18 Denver Colorado schools 2017 lead found in school water district had been certifying water safety
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2016, Denver Public Schools (DPS) certified its water as safe for drinking—despite internal tests showing lead levels in some school fountains at …
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 17 Baltimore Maryland 2019 elevated lead levels in school water systems found schools had been telling
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2019, Baltimore City Public Schools tested water fountains and sinks in 138 of its 164 buildings and found lead levels above the federal action li…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 16 Wilmington North Carolina GenX chemical contamination from Chemours plant discovered by university r
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 2013, a researcher at North Carolina State University detected an unknown chemical in the Cape Fear River—later identified as GenX—while testing w…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 15 Portsmouth New Hampshire PFAS from Pease Air Force Base contaminated water military knew before noti
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1983, the U.S. Air Force detected PFAS chemicals in groundwater at Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth, New Hampshire—three decades before the city…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 14 Parchment Michigan 2018 PFAS contamination residents told water was safe days before bottled water w
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On July 26, 2018, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) told residents of Parchment, Michigan, that their municipal water was safe …
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 13 Sebring Ohio 2016 lead contamination officials waited months to notify public EPA cited for slow res
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On August 2, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a private email to Ohio state officials confirming that Sebring, Ohio’s water …
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 12 Dos Palos California nitrate contamination in agricultural area residents without means to buy bottl
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2018, the California State Water Resources Control Board tested drinking water in Dos Palos, a farming town of 5,000 in the San Joaquin Valley, an…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 11 Brunswick Georgia PFAS contamination from military base detected public notification delayed
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 2016, the U.S. Navy detected PFAS—a class of toxic "forever chemicals" linked to cancer and immune disorders—in groundwater beneath its Brunswick,…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 10 Dimock Pennsylvania 2012 EPA declared water safe after fracking contamination complaints reversed af
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In July 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared Dimock, Pennsylvania’s drinking water safe to consume—despite internal agency e…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 09 Corpus Christi Texas 2016 industrial chemical backflow into water system city issued then lifted the
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On December 14, 2016, the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, issued a water-boil notice after detecting industrial chemicals in its drinking supply—then …
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 08 Washington DC 2001 lead contamination discovered EPA and DC Water Authority delayed full disclosure
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In January 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) knew that lead leve…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 07 East Chicago Indiana 2016 residents in public housing lived on former lead smelter site not told for
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) discovered that 1,100 residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chica…
City Water Declared Safe When It Wasn't: 06 Jackson Mississippi 2022 water system failed during flooding boil notices issued then rescinded prem
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On August 30, 2022, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) declared Jackson’s water system safe to drink—despite internal EPA tests from t…