Philadelphia water officials updated residents Tuesday, saying tap water was deemed 'safe to drink' through Wednesday following a chemical spill last week.
began to circulate showing never-ending grocery check-out lines with residents pushing several boxes of bottled water up to the register. One user even deemed the scene the"Water Apocalypse 2023." The Philadelphia Police Department,
along with officials from the DEP and Philadelphia OEM performed a flyover in the area where evidence of the spill was expected to be found but reported no visual evidence of a spill. Testing at the Baxter Water Plant also reported no contaminates in the Philadelphia water system, according to officials during a Sunday morning press conference.
City officials said they have been testing samples from as many as a dozen locations. No contaminants related to the discharge have been found so far. Sold out water section in Giant Supermarket in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia March 26, 2023.of Delaware River water and city tests of water in the river near the treatment plant intake have not shown signs of contamination, said Mike Carroll, deputy managing director for the city’s Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability, according to Fox 29. Carroll also said he does not believe the spill conditions will last longer than Thursday.
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