CNN: … Investigators from the Kanawha County Fire Department and the state Department of Environmental Protection soon found where it all started — a leak from a 35,000-gallon storage tank along the Elk River, which is a regional water source.
The chemical had overflowed a containment area around the tank, then migrated over land and through the soil into the river.
McIntyre said Friday he didn’t believe the substance — 4-methylcyclohexane methanol — was still flowing. At the same time, that doesn’t mean the situation will be resolved soon, so people can drink and bathe again… (more)
