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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 2381825" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>From my understanding the chemical that was spilled is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-methylcyclohexanemethanol" target="_blank">4-methylcyclohexane methanol</a></p><p></p><p>Since it is patented as an air freshener it will evaporate but likely not at a fast rate (colorless oil)and in a closed system like a water line there is no chance for evaporation until it is dislodged. It is only slightly water soluble so to me that says it will be hard to get flushed out of the system the levels are supposed to be dropping but they have no idea how long it will take to be considered safe for human use and if pockets remain in the water lines this could cause problems for years. They will have to open fire hydrants and try to get all the sediment in the lines out which will take a long time to complete and use hundreds of thousands of gallons of water to complete, not to mention years of testing at multiple sites for the just in case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 2381825, member: 29706"] From my understanding the chemical that was spilled is [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-methylcyclohexanemethanol"]4-methylcyclohexane methanol[/URL] Since it is patented as an air freshener it will evaporate but likely not at a fast rate (colorless oil)and in a closed system like a water line there is no chance for evaporation until it is dislodged. It is only slightly water soluble so to me that says it will be hard to get flushed out of the system the levels are supposed to be dropping but they have no idea how long it will take to be considered safe for human use and if pockets remain in the water lines this could cause problems for years. They will have to open fire hydrants and try to get all the sediment in the lines out which will take a long time to complete and use hundreds of thousands of gallons of water to complete, not to mention years of testing at multiple sites for the just in case. [/QUOTE]
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