Residents dispute EPA’s claims that fishkill not related to derailment
Snippet of Article: "...Tsai also said that a chemical smell was very much present, an opinion shared by Dehaven, and questioned why what he insists is a visible presence of chemicals at the fishkill site wasn’t concerning.
“There was biological matter in the creek that day and debris from the bridge demolition,” Tsai said. “I agree with that, but there were also chemicals. They say “well, there’s two other things so that negates this other thing’. They don’t want to see the chemicals.”
Tsai also disputed the EPA’s claim that Leslie Run “generally shows no indication of chemicals.”
“For them to say that there is no contamination below Leslie Run either means they have hired the most inept imbeciles or they are lying to us,” he said. “It can only be one or the other because I can give a 7-year-old a stick and he can find this stuff in a few minutes.”..."
The Region 5 EPA spokesman Brian Brakeall noted that the bridge replacement project “is not part of the train derailment clean-up process” and the road material included concrete among other materials. The project was located approximately 30 feet upstream from where the dead fish were found.
