Truck carrying toxic soil from East Palestine overturns — Video
A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of soil contaminated with toxic chemicals from the train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio crashed on Monday evening while en route to a disposal site.
In a statement, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said that roughly half of the tractor-trailer's load had spilled onto the road and into a nearby ditch on State Route 165, which runs from Unity, near East Palestine, toward Beloit.
Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the derailment site on March 9, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. Cleanup efforts continue after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing an environmental disaster.associated with exposure to toxic chemicals, despite monitoring by the EPA and Norfolk Southern contractors showing safe readings.
The rail company and the EPA have been working to contain the contamination from the spill in the months since, including aerating water in nearby streams to remove toxic particles and excavating the soil around the crash site to be disposed of at EPA-certified facilities.that the Ohio EPA and the East Palestine Fire Department had led the clean-up of the soil spilled by the tractor-trailer on April 10, but that a federal EPA coordinator was also on the scene.
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