Riverside Facility News Today

Environmental protection started getting complaints from local residents about a strong licorice smell coming from a facility along the elk river in charleston, west virginia. three hours after those calls started coming in at around 11:15 thursday morning state investigators arrived at the scene and they discovered that a chemical was leaking from the bottom of a storage tank at that riverside facility. the company that owns the storage tank hadnt reported the leak but it was clear to the versi...

Last thursday there were complaints from local residents about a strong licorice smell. three hours after the calls started coming in, state investigators arrived at the scene and discovered that a chemical was leaking from the bottom of a storage tank that riverside facility. the company that owns the storage tank hadnt reported the leak but it was clear something was leaking. that something was a chemical commonly used in processing coal. the faulty store an tank was leaking right into the elk...