They planned to take in more water Sunday evening to reach customers’ taps by Tuesday - if testing proves that the fresh supply is safe. Officials were confident that the supply was not contaminated. Carroll added, emphasizing that the water in the tap - coming from water treatment facilities that were sampled for contamination earlier in the day - would be safe to drink until at least Monday evening.Īfter the spill, the city took in enough river water to supply its customers through 11:59 p.m. “In a matter of days, the water in the Delaware should be OK,” Mr. Carroll said that tidal conditions and rain on Saturday should help the river “flush itself out” into the Delaware Bay. Officials said residents, out of an abundance of caution, could consider buying bottled water because, they said, it could not “be 100 percent sure that there won’t be traces of these chemicals in the tap water throughout the afternoon.”Īt a news briefing later on Sunday, Michael Carroll, Philadelphia’s deputy managing director for transportation, infrastructure and sustainability, said such measures were unnecessary. Officials emphasized that contaminants had not been found in the city’s water system. The previous advisory, issued on Sunday morning, came after a pipe ruptured at Trinseo PLC, a chemical plant, late on Friday, sending about 8,100 gallons of a water-soluble acrylic polymer solution into Otter Creek in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia, officials said.
Philadelphia officials on Sunday evening stepped back from a suggestion earlier in the day that residents consider using bottled water rather than tap water for drinking and cooking after a chemical leaked into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of drinking water for about 14 million people across four states.
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