Rock Island Illinois Hydrofluorosilicic Acid Spill & Clean-up WQASD News 24-Mar-11

Hazmat crews were called to the Rock Island water treatment plant for emergency clean up of the hydrofluorosilicic acid chemical spill leaking from a tanker truck. The chemical was so strong it was burning through the concrete. It's a highly corrosive chemical that the water treatment plant uses to fluoridate municipal drinking water. Plant employees were evacuated.

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