Philadelphia Monitoring Water Supply After Spill From Chemical Plant

Philadelphia officials on Sunday evening stepped back from a suggestion earlier in the day that residents consider using bottled water rather than ...

March 27, 2023
6:10 AM

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. 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.

Emily Schmall