Philadelphia officials say city water is safe to drink until at least 11:59 p.m. on March 29 as they continue testing it for contamination.
They expect to keep extending that timeline as they continue testing water upstream, entering a water treatment facility and accounting for the time it takes for treated water to flow down river to home taps.
The concern for possible contamination of drinking water in certain parts of Philadelphia started on March 24 after a white cloud of chemicals floated down the Delaware River, when 8,100 gallons of acrylic latex polymer spilled into Otter Creek in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and swiftly moved into the nearby Delaware River….