EPA tells Crane residents about hydroxide finding

-urges them to continue taking precautions

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday visited the homes of Crane, West Coast Demerara residents affected by a mystery seepage through their floor tiles and formally advised them that the matter is some type of hydroxide.

The visit was to relate to the residents that the preliminary investigations as reported by this newspaper yesterday revealed that the substance was a hydroxide.

“So the substance as you have seen reported in the media is hydroxide, but the analysis takes time, and there is other stuff that needs to be taken to draw a conclusion. Everything that we are seeing making up the substance is below the world health standards” for exposure, an EPA official related.