Officials: No Immediate Health Threat from Leak in Paulsboro Derailment
After assessing the health risk from the leak, authorities are now determining the best way to right three train cars that toppled off a bridge in the derailment.
A derailed freight train that leaked potentially hazardous chemical vapors into the air Friday morning in Paulsboro has been stabilized as authorities determine the best way to upright three train cars that toppled into Mantua Creek. County and state officials said at a news conference Friday afternoon that there did not appear to be any imminent danger from the vinyl chloride that leaked from one of the derailed cars. A spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection said the agency will continue to monitor air quality in the area. Gloucester County Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger said there was no need for mass evacuations from the area, but officials encouraged residents of Paulsboro, East Greenwich and West …
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Tom Stanton
1:47 pm on Saturday, December 1, 2012
I do agree that there is a place for government, which is why there are 18 enumerated powers given to the government via the Constitution. I am not throwing the baby out with the bathwater; just draining the swamp they call Washington D.C. I am simply trying to reverse the thinking of the need for big government. With all due respect, there is no benefit to Conrail to not keep their railways safe… more ›