The USEPA is dumping a cancer-causing chemical into Valatie Kill Creek in New York, a tributary of the Hudson River.
Nice job guys! Same lame excuse used in Animas River spill in Colorado caused by the USEPA... the creek is not a drinking water source... it only has fish in it.
According to the USEPA, the solvent 1,4 dioxane is a carcinogen; however, for months the agency has been releasing the solvent into the Valatie Kill creek from the Dewey Loeffel Superfund site in upstate New York.
The Times Union reports that “[t]he Valatie Kill is not used for drinking water, but it is a protected trout stream that flows into Kinderhook Lake in Columbia County, and which then drains into Kinderhook Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River.” The Times Union also reported that in June 2015 dioxane levels in the creek had increased ten-fold since February. In July the USEPA said that dioxane levels had decreased after a filter was replaced, but according to the chart below, the discharge of dioxane has increased dramatically since the end of July.
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