Gail Rectenwald of Sandyville, sits with samples of water from her well to give Joe Manchin (D-WV) after a town hall style meeting at the Downtowner restaurant in Ripley, WV. Although her water was not affected by the chemical spill, she was there to lend support for new municipal water lines to be installed in the area. “We’ve never been able to drink our water,” she says about their well. Her family has been drinking bottled water for 25 years because there have never been any alternatives she says. The E. coli and iron levels in the water eventually got so high, they had to install a $7
Gail Rectenwald of Sandyville, sits with samples of water from her well to give Joe Manchin (D-WV) after a town hall style meeting at the Downtowner restaurant in Ripley, WV. Although her water was not affected by the chemical spill, she was there to lend support for new municipal water lines to be installed in the area. “We’ve never been able to drink our water,” she says about their well. Her family has been drinking bottled water for 25 years because there have never been any alternatives she says. The E. coli and iron levels in the water eventually got so high, they had to install a $7,000 water filtration system just to be able to wash dishes, clothes and take showers.
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