Last week, the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board issued an order halting the construction of the pipeline at 55 locations across the state.
Cloudy water with an oily film poured out of a hose at Scavello’s Car Care in Exton, Pennsylvania, where Jeremy Garrison had to turn away at least three customers while he waited for his water supply to clear up.
“This is our livelihood,” he said. “We need clean water to sustain our business.”
Scavello’s purchased a new filtration system about one year ago, but it’s not enough to prevent murkiness caused by Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 Pipeline, Garrison said.
Sunoco provided Scavello with storage tanks for clean water. The business currently has 300 gallons left.
“That’s about a day [of business] for us,” he said.
Mark Taylor, a West Whiteland Township resident, recently plucked two dead Canadian geese from a pond near his home. He can see petroleum gas percolating into the soil, the result of a previous spill that happened in 1987, he said.
“How about getting remediation first?” he asked during an emergency preparedness meeting Wednesday night in Chester County.
He was advised to call first responders in the event of dead animals.
TV 10 – Alicia Victoria Lozano – 08/02/2017
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