CSB to reveal Freedom Industries’ chemical leak findings
Incident contaminated drinking water of nine counties
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will meet on, September 28, 2016 to release its final report and safety recommendations into the January 9, 2014, chemical storage tank leak that contaminated the drinking water of up to 300,000 residents of nine West Virginia Counties.
CSB investigators said earlier that it was likely the tank MCHM chemical storage tank at the Freedom Industries site had been leaking prior to the disastrous spill in January, which was discovered when a citizen complained of a “licorice-like” odor in the area.