Most Evacuees Home as Water Is Tested
All but a few of the estimated 5,000 people forced from their homes by toxic fumes returned Friday but authorities would not allow the city to resume drawing water from the Sandusky River.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was testing the water in the city of 18,000 and considering possible treatment methods, officials said.
Water intakes were turned off Thursday when flammable toluene from a ruptured Sun Refining & Marketing Co. pipeline 15 miles upriver reached the water plant. Stuart Bruny, chief of the EPA’s Division of Public Water Supply, said the city’s holding tanks contained about a 20-hour supply of water.
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