Chemical in water burns residents
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Dozens of Spencer residents were taken to hospitals with burns or rashes after the town’s water supply was treated with too much corrosive lye, officials said.
People were advised not to use or touch the water, said Ed Coletta, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, is routinely put into water to reduce acidity and limit pipe corrosion, Coletta said, but too much was used.
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