Although cleanup efforts have continued since the toxic trail derailment in East Palestine, the remediation work Norfolk Southern is responsible for conducting is nowhere near complete.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — It's been over a month since the train derailment in East Palestine shook the small town, and although cleanup efforts have continued throughout the ordeal, the remediation work Norfolk Southern is responsible for conducting is nowhere near complete.
"We have been concerned about the speed or lack of speed in hitting the soil, the dirt out of here," DeWine said."The current pile we think is about 26,700 tons." "There's a lot of work to be done. And again, we're going to continue to do everything we can to push this thing through and to get the railroad to get the job done. But I can't predict the time," DeWine said.
As part of the EPA's continued testing of water, air and now soil, a grid of residential, recreational, commercial and agricultural land has been plotted out for additional testing for contaminants. "Norfolk Southern has an obligation to put this community back to where it was. We didn't ask for this train wreck. It's their train. It's their tracks," DeWine said.
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