West Virginia Chemical Tank Spill / Charleston Water Crisis

Cited as example of riveted 1940s tanks leaking through to city water supply; company bankrupt, Water Authority sued instead.

Last winter — anybody from West Virginia? Anybody remember what happened in West Virginia? They shut down all the water, because this company had some chemicals that they stored for the mine, and it turns out the tank started leaking, and it got over a protective barrier into the City of Charleston water supply. Well, those old tanks were riveted tanks from the 1940s. Someone might have thought that maybe they should have been inspected, okay. Some of them are just pure rust on the bottom. That company is now basically bankrupt — the company that owns the tank — but the Water Authority is being sued because they're not bankrupt.