You will be fine. 100,000 gallons of water move through the Delaware every second. The spill was 8,000 gallons. The concern was that the spill, while small in comparison to the river, could be in high enough concentration that some water could enter a treatment plan a few miles downstream of where the spill was. I am not a hydrologist or something, but I'd bet money on the river washing any final traces of the spill away from the area near the intake valves (which they are constantly monitoring with extra diligence and testing because of the spill - and they haven't had cause for concern yet) .

Honestly the story here is how the city officials fucked things up and got everybody panicked and told them to buy bottled water, than retracted that statement 2 hours later. Ever since then, they've said consistently that the water is safe. But by then the fear had spread and people were scared the government was telling the truth or not, if they heard the new news at all. Tbh, I think somebody jumped the gun on sending out the warning.

They keep the twitter page in the link updated. PWD reports the wate is safe to drink currently

I googled "[town name] water source" and was able to figure out where it came from in about 10 minutes (ours comes from Neshaminy Creek, which is upriver from the spill). But there's no database or anything that I'm aware of.

You're fine. As of right now, the Philadelphia Water Department and the other authorities are saying the water is safe to drink, but they are monitoring the situation. So far the response from the authorities seems to be appropriate IMO.

To put in context, the spill was about 8,000 gallons (about the size of a large fuel truck) into the Delaware River, which discharges 100,000 gallons a second. However, the spill was not very far up the river from a treatment plant that serves a large portion of the city. They're monitoring the situation, as they should be in a case like this, but the guidance right now is that water is safe to drink but people should stay alert for further developments.

You're definitely fine to shower. If the situation develops and you shouldn't drink the water, your hotel will provide bottled water.

Hey now. The unions are also also needed to harbor racism, break equipment in the children's hospital because it wasn't installed by a union contractor, and commit arson and intimidation against Quakers building a meeting house.

Me normally: "I'm a good liberal"

Me when shit like this happens: "They must get back to work"

Fucking unions, man

I wouldn't necessarily recommend an English, Philosophy, Communications, etc degree to anybody, but they're generally fairly cheap programs to run. They don't require expensive lab space or professors with high salary requirements because you've got to hire then away from the private sector. They're generally profit centers for the university that end up subsidizing the math-ier subjects.

>It [Groundhog Day] derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerges from its burrows on this day and sees its shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den and winter will go on for six more weeks; if it does not see its shadow because of cloudiness, spring will arrive early.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day

The animal was also originally a badger in Germany

Didn't know this about Erie, but non-profits not paying taxes hurts a lot of cities and towns. They really need to pay property taxes.

In Philly the universities buy land and play developer, then don't have to pay taxes on any of the student housing they develop. It's ridiculous.

Church buildings used for worship can be exempt I guess, that's not worth the 1st amendment fight, but everybody else? Pay up.

Councilmember Pat Toomey was actually instrumental in getting it passed, lol

Probably the only good decision he ever made.

>Another major goal of the postmortem, Asher said, is to figure out how to win back the suburban areas in the state that have trended away from Republicans in recent years, chief among them Philadelphia’s vote-rich collar counties.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

You made this bed in 2016 when you traded upscale, college educated white voters for downscale, low-voting propensity culture warriors in dying towns. Chester, Montgomery, and Delaware counties provided more Democratic margin in raw votes last year than Philadelphia did, for the first time ever. The suburbs don't want the shit you're selling. Bye bye.

>What went so wrong in Pennsylvania?

You nominated a lunatic that alienated even Republican voters (My GOP-voting grandfather who stuck through Trump and has voted Republican in every election since at least 1968 refused to vote for Doug), didn't make this up by picking up votes anywhere else in the electorate, and decided the optimal campaign strategy was to hide from world and pray for victory instead of running ads for the last three weeks of the campaign.

Oh, and he attended Jan 6 and submitted coup fanfiction as his thesis at the Army War College. Maybe try running a better candidate, next time.

Call the campaign/party of the person you plan to vote for and ask for help?

PECO has a program for financial hardship, PPL might too.

Time to get solar panels, folks