“...It’s still not all right,” states Archie Satterfield’s mother, Sharon Satterfield, a Charleston, fifth generation, native West Virginia resident. She doesn’t touch the water and now lives life without using any running water due to the fear of it still being polluted. Her family now also eats mostly packaged foods instead of anything that requires preparation with water, like many other West Virginia residents whom are also petrified that the spill was downplayed, and did not receive the proper attention. Even after the drinking ban was lifted ( a ban which advised residents to refrain from using the water for anything at all, including flushing toilets ) Satterfield refuses to use the water. “It’s sad,” she states, “All my life, with all the chemical plants, Carbide, DuPont and all the rest, we’ve never had a problem like this. This is how we do it now, no hand washing from the tap,” she says, visibly exhausted. All of the water they use is purchased at the store in gallons or bottles, and recognized as what the inhabitants now call “good water” or non-local water. On February 10th, Charleston held a hearing on the spill, where officials were pelted with questions, demanding that more information be given to prove that the water was indeed, actually safe. ”That’s, in a way, a difficult thing to say because everybody has a different definition of safe.”, Commissioner of the state Bureau for Public Health Letitia Tierney stated when asked if the water was safe. Who knew that the word safe was so intricate? Governor Tomblin, evidently irritated, exclaimed “I’m not going to say absolutely, 100 percent, that everything is safe. It’s your decision.”...
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:49:50 +0000
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