EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — New developments from federal officials came out of East Palestine on Sunday. The EPA outlined a plan for where all the toxic waste will now go and the measures in place to ensure the community is safe.
“We owe it to East Palestine and the residents nearby to move waste out of the community as quickly as possible and that’s exactly what we’re going to do,” said U.S. EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe.
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The EPA announced certified facilities that will be able to accept at least some of the waste from the massive train derailment.
“Some liquid waste sent to a facility in Victory, Ohio, where it will be disposed of in an underground injection well,” said McCabe.
Norfolk Southern will begin shipping solid waste to the Heritage Valley Incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio, on Monday. The transportation of those chemicals will be overseen by federal, state and local officials and under strict guidelines.
The EPA says all rail cars, except for the ones being investigated by the NTSB, have been cleared from the site.
“We can now begin to evacuate additional contaminated solid and begin installing monitoring wells at the site of the derailment,” said Director of Ohio EPA Anne Vogel, “They will tell us if there’s contamination to groundwater.”
FEMA will also expand its outreach across the state line to people affected by the disaster in Beaver County.
“Over the coming days, the unified coordination group will continue to ramp up efforts across affected communities - expanding to include Beaver County to ensure we’re connecting to everyone,” said FEMA Region 5 Regional Administrator Thomas Sivack.
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