'In total, the impacted region encompassed parts of [540,000 square miles] or 14 percent of the U.S. land area,' the researchers wrote in the paper.
Over a year after a train derailed in a small Ohio town, spilling a cocktail of toxic chemicals into the environment, scientists have mapped just how far these pollutants traveled.Up to 540,000 square miles, spanning 16 U.S. states surrounding the site in East Palestine, Ohio, had some traces of the inorganic chemicals released during the disaster, according to a new paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
'Our measurements not only show the expected high chloride concentrations, but also the vast geographical area they covered,' study co-author David Gay, a coordinator of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program , said in a statement.'However, even more surprising are the unexpectedly high pH levels and exceptionally elevated alkali and alkaline earth metals, exceeding the 99th percentiles of the last ten years of measurements.
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