The process resumed after a short pause. County and local authorities assure that safety is assured.
HOUSTON – The city of Deer Park will resume the process of receiving water used during the East Palestine environmental crisis in Ohio.
The fact was confirmed not only by Harris County Administrator Lina Hidalgo, but also by District 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia and Deer Park Mayor Jerry Mouton.
The latter two offered a reassuring statement about the procedure being developed by Texas Molecular, the company in charge of injecting these waters underground at its headquarters located in eastern Harris County.
“Texas Molecular has been completely transparent, so we have no additional cause for concern,” Garcia and Mouton said in a public release.
The senior officials said they have full confidence in Texas Molecular’s ability to “safely dispose of those waters.”
For his part, Hidalgo said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will monitor the process of transporting the contaminated water from Ohio to Deer Park.
According to recently disclosed figures, in a period of eight days about 747,000 gallons of this water were transported, which is injected into the subsoil through a hydraulic system of the company Texas Molecular.