Amazon makes water delivery to East Palestine after Ohio train derailment
Amazon has donated over 14-hundred cases of bottled water to the people impacted by the train derailment in East Palestine.
The truckloads of bottled water arrived this morning to be distributed.
The railroad began running trains over the line again almost immediately after the evacuation order was lifted, something Mayor Trent Conaway expressed frustrations with weeks ago. Officials are concerned chemicals could still be in the soil underneath the tracks, and the EPA order addresses that.
"That soil will be removed," DeWine said, "so the tracks will have to be taken up, and that soil will have to be removed."
State and federal officials have continued to say the village's air and municipal drinking water are safe, despite concerns from residents. On Tuesday, both DeWine and Regan publicly drank water from a home's tap in an effort to show confidence in their data.
"This village water is safe," DeWine declared again today. "How do we know that? We know that because it has been tested. But we're going to continue to test, so the Ohio EPA will continue to test once a week going forward."
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