Email from NJAW. Shortly followed by an automated call with the same message. Wife went to the store to stock up on bottled water and everyone had the same idea.

Hoping for the best, preparing for the bad.

Same thing over here in Eastern Camden County. I filled up a bunch of containers just in case. My wife struck out with regular bottled water but got some flavored water. Will we need it? No idea. But I'd rather get some now than when word gets out that we have to.

Any details like length and what kind of chemical spilled?

I assume it’s related to the chemical spill on the Delaware tributary.

Check graingers and other supply stores that sell to the public. Many carry water for the field workers they sell to and not many people think of them times like this. Worst case, online order from stores, since it's just the local area being affected you should have no problem ordering it for delivery.

Liquid latex, up to 12000 gallons. I turned on my sink and a condom came out.

Went to Sam's Club today and the line was out the door and down the street with people from the Delaware and Philly area buying carts and carts of water. Just a head's up for people going out to the stores over the weekend.

Thanks for deregulating the EPA Trump, its really helping our profits soar!

this has nothing to do with politics... a pipe ruptured and it leeched into a creek because of that. Not dumped.

Better than a baby!

I was wondering why the Costco in cherry hill was a nightmare yesterday. All I needed was a single rotisserie chicken 😭

How often was that pipeline required to be inspected? Were there standards that pipe was supposed to meet to safely avoid rupture, would it have been scheduled for replacement if EPA deregulation wouldn't have happened?

I don't know the answers, but to say a ruptured pipe could have "nothing to do with politics" is just wrong. It's very possible it could have been avoided with stronger regulations.

Incidents like this should also be used to inform future policy regarding inspection, structural, and safety requirements for both new and old pipelines, to strive to minimize more incidents like it in the future.

Tell me you don’t know what the EPA does without telling me you don’t know what the EPA does.

Any word from TWW? Or is their problem still everything else in the water?

If New Jersey does not source any of their water from the Delaware River why are they even bothering to tell anybody in this area about it?

Except… we do. American Water Company does.

i found Trenton Waters announcement. intake is upstream of the issue but they are monitoring the situation.

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Yeah I just read into it, it just confusing because I guess the source that we get it from is not the same as Philadelphia so our system is not at risk