Well, howdy there, Internet, Be the Lidsboo again.

So today we are going to talk a little bit about Cincinnati and Kentucky and water and what's going on.

So yesterday, around 2 a.m.

Cincinnati shut off their intakes from the river. This is the river that would have been impacted by the train in

that derailment. The coverage I have seen in the official statements indicate a number of things.

First is that this wasn't one of the four chemicals that they were really worried about.

But what they found down river, not at the intake, was the presence of a

chemical that gets used in fragrances a lot. And they're not even sure if it came from the the trained

railment itself. But out of an abundance of caution,

they closed the intakes and the city is running on its

reserves.

The city can can apparently last on those reserves a while because in none of the

coverage and none of the statements is there any indication that people need to be worried about

rationing water?

It's also worth noting that it appears that the small amount of this chemical that was found in the water

if it had gone into the intake it looks as though the normal treatment process would have

filtered it out.

It looks like it would have got caught up in the activated charcoal. So it seems as though this is all out of an abundance of caution.

They are continuing to monitor it and once they have

deemed it safe they'll reopen the intakes. But the fact that at least according to their statements they are acting before

stuff gets to the intakes and they're monitoring not just at the intakes but also down river and they're making moves

to preempt a problem.

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