Self-reported household impacts of large-scale chemical contamination of the public water supply, Charleston, West Virginia, USA.

A January 2014 industrial accident contaminated the public water supply of approximately 300,000 homes in and near Charleston, West Virginia (USA) with low levels of a strongly-smelling substance consisting principally of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM). The ensuing state of emergency closed sch...

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Main Authors: Charles P Schade, Nasandra Wright, Rahul Gupta, David A Latif, Ayan Jha, John Robinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126744