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After more than a month, when the four alarm fires surrounded the SPS Technologies Aerospace Manufacturing facility in Genkantown, the company continues to monitor nearby wind and fertilizers-and say it has not received any danger to public health.
“Currently, there are no components of concern for the flow of fire with the SPS facility that threatens human health or aquatic life,” said David Doggan, a spokeswoman for the SPS Technologies Parents Prison Cost Parts Corporation. “However, we cannot confirm the quality of water before the fire or in relation to possible pollution -related pollution.”
The company wrote in a statement in a statement Website has been made to communicate updates about this incident That it will continue to be a “future” and water test.
“After the recent fire, the SPS is committed to the safety and welfare of our community,” says the website.
The day -to -day fire In the air, black smoke plums were sent, and nearby families caused evacuation of their homes and shelter in place. Neighbors are smelling a chemical -like odor inside their homes and have put the debris into their yard. Some are worried about the effects of long -term health.
The incident did not affect drinking water, and state environmental officials have said that no concern in the air outside this facility could be detected.
Creek in the crack has decreased the level of cyanide
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found a sionide in a technical crack, while the fire was still smoke. The agency published the online results by displaying the level of Sinide Between 18 and 19 FebBut still the 19th is recognized. DEP spokesman Stephanie Berardi said the agency re -sampled the crack on February 19 and found that the level of sinide had diminished to an unidentified level, but did not provide test results.
According to one, raw materials used in the manufacturing process of SPS Technologies included cyanide salts that were on site during the fire Report about the effects of fire An Advisor SPS hired, TRC Environmental Corporation.
DEP officials witnessed the death of a “small” fish in a technical crack, which Berardi said, because of a large amount of chlorland water used in response to firefighting in the waterway.
The company said that through the contractor TRC Environmental Corporation, SPS also detected sainide at the locations of technical ditch in weeks after the fire – including the state’s water quality exceeding levels. But as of March 16, almost all samples have reduced the level of sainide below the lab detection limit.
“It seems that matters have settled on crackdown since the incident took place,” said Gerald Kaufman, director of the University of Delaware’s Water Resource Center. The latest results of the water test. “The results are clear.”
