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The company responsible for the chemical spill in West Virginia moved its chemicals to a nearby plant that has already been cited for safety violations, including a backup containment wall with holes in it.

As a result, state officials may force the company to move the chemicals to a third site.

Inspectors on Monday found five safety violations at Freedom Industries' storage facility in Nitro, about 10 miles from the spill site in Charleston. The spill contaminated the drinking water for 300,000 people, and about half of them were still waiting for officials to lift the ban on tap water.

The West Virginia Bureau for Public Health issued a statement Wednesday evening advising pregnant women not to drink the water "until there are no longer detectable levels" of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, a chemical used in coal processing. The statement said it was making the recommendation "out of an abundance of caution" after consulting with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Department of Environmental Protection on Friday ordered Freedom Industries to move all of its chemicals to the Nitro site.

According to a report from the department, inspectors found that, like the Charleston facility, the Nitro site's last-resort containment wall had holes in it. The report described the site's wall as "deteriorated or nonexistent."

Freedom Industries said the building's walls acted as a secondary containment dike, but state inspectors disagreed. The walls had holes in them near the ground level, and they led out to a stormwater trench surrounding the structure's exterior, the report said.

Department spokesman Tom Aluise said the ditch eventually drains into the Kanawha River. The Nitro facility isn't on a riverbank, like the other facility.

The facility had no documentation of inspections of the Nitro site. Nor did it have proof of employee training in the past 10 years, the report said.

Aluise said the state could force Freedom to move the chemicals to a third site, or build secondary containment structures at the Nitro facility. He said the department would issue an administrative order Thursday morning detailing what corrective action will be required. Asked what possible penalties would be brought against the company, Aluise responded in an email: "Yet to be determined."

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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, SC (WIS) -

Fairfield County taxpayers are demanding answers after finding out the county spent more than $300,000 on a football field. Over the weekend, a $40,000 retaining wall at the field crumbled to the ground.

The county finished construction four months ago, but the field still isn't finished.

The people we spoke with say they don't want another dime spent on this project and want those responsible for spending the money on the field to explain why Fairfield County needed it.

"I bet I told 50 people that wall was coming down," said former Fairfield County Councilman William Turner.

"What just ticks me off, I'm a taxpayer in this county and I just see y'all wave your arms and just -- I'm taking a $4,000 check down there today to pay taxes and see it wasted like this? That's what just disturbs me," said Fairfield County citizen Clyde Wade.

Fairfield County Administrator Milton Pope got a dressing down when he showed up to inspect the wall collapse at the county park Monday morning.

A huge section of a cinder block retaining wall fell over and took with it a fence taxpayers spent more than $40,000 to put up.

Pope gave his workers his initial assessment as soon as he walked up:

"Unless they didn't follow the plans right, it's built right," said Pope. "It just didn't give it, the wall, the time to pack before it got all that water in it.

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After more than two years of news stories and paying for two cleanups, Caltrans has finally removed the black tar ooze from a pre-modern era concrete retaining wall along Highway 128 just 40 feet from the Navarro River.

This newspaper literally exposed the mess attached to the front of the old concrete structure in our first story printed in summer 2012.

State regulators, responding to California Public Records Act requests for comment from this newspaper, had to use GPS devices to find the wall among dense brush back then. The low, west end of it is just 10 feet from the roadway, about 100 yards east of the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 128, on the east (mountain) side of the road.

A huge tank dispensed tar for blacktopping from atop the wall from the 1950s to 1970s. This kind of practice was common at the time but became strictly illegal due to emerging environmental regulations and concerns.

This newspaper's investigation printed in a half dozen stories over the past two years, exposed (after initial denial) that Caltrans had originally proposed to remove the entire wall structure as part of a $1.5 million guardrail replacing and enhancing project for a still planned nearby upgrade on Highway 128 but pulled the cleanup out of the project, baffling regulators at the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. The two projects are now separate.

Phil Frisbie Jr.

"Just to be clear, this cleanup work was never part of, or within the project area, of the guardrail project. The guardrail project is scheduled to go out to bid this spring and to construction this summer," said Frisbie.

Second cleanup seems to be working

A three-day cleanup in November, a year after the first, botched cleanup, filled three 20-cubic-yard disposal bins (about 26 tons of waste). Cleaned up by workers wearing protective and hazmat suits, it was transported under a non-hazardous waste manifest to the Potrero Hill Class II Landfill facility located in Suisun.

"The asphalt emulsion oil (tar) ranging in thickness from 1 to 4 feet was removed from behind the retaining wall using a 60-pound electric jack hammer and hand tools. The asphalt emulsion oil was removed to exposed native soil. The removed asphalt emulsion oil and associated soil and debris was then placed in the Bobcat bucket and transferred to the disposal bins," Geocon Consultants, the company that did both cleanups, wrote to Caltrans.

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In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, file photo, workers, left, inspect an area outside a retaining wall around storage tanks where a chemical leaked into the Elk River at Freedom Industries storage facility in Charleston, W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Aluise says inspectors found five violations Monday at a Nitro, W.Va., site where Freedom Industries moved its coal-cleaning chemicals after last Thursdays spill. Inspectors found that, like the Charleston facility where the leak originated, the Nitro site lacked appropriate secondary containment. In Charleston, a porous containment wall allowed the chemical to ooze into the Elk River. Steve Helber/The Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, file photo, workers inspect an area outside a retaining wall around storage tanks where a chemical leaked into the Elk River at Freedom Industries storage facility in Charleston, W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Aluise says inspectors found five violations Monday at a Nitro, W.Va., site where Freedom Industries moved its coal-cleaning chemicals after last Thursdays spill. Inspectors found that, like the Charleston facility where the leak originated, the Nitro site lacked appropriate secondary containment. In Charleston, a porous containment wall allowed the chemical to ooze into the Elk River. Steve Helber/The Associated Press

Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:28 am | Updated: 12:12 pm, Wed Jan 15, 2014.

Company in West Virginia spill cited in issues at 2nd site Associated Press |

CHARLESTON, W.Va. State inspectors have cited the company whose spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians for five violations at a second facility where it is storing chemicals, and they say Freedom Industries might have to relocate its materials again because of a lack of a secondary containment plan.

State inspectors found the violations Monday at a Nitro site where Freedom Industries moved its coal-cleaning chemicals after Thursdays spill, according to a state Department of Environmental Protection report. Inspectors found that, like the Charleston facility where the leak originated, the Nitro site lacked appropriate last-resort containment to stop chemical leaks.

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