Public meeting held over Jacksonville water contamination

Craft-Turney representatives and representatives with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) held an informational meeting addressing people’s concerns following the "Do Not Use" order in Jacksonville.
The representatives spoke about what they could release, but many answers the community wanted were not able to be answered due to the investigation.
The room went from standing room only to less than half way full during the first hour of the meeting.
"We’re scared," Shelia Warren, a customer that’s been affected said, "I know it’s frustration but we’re scared because they won’t tell us the truth about what’s going on."
"We haven’t known where to go shower.
We don’t know where to go eat," she added.
The "Do Not Use" order has been lifted for the majority of those affected.
Warren says her biggest question is how long the contaminant was in the water before they were ever told.
Warren is concerned about her daughter-in-laws pregnancy since she ingested the water and how it will affect her unborn grandchild, not to mention her other grandchild.
It seems that many people, while understanding of jeopardizing the investigation, left the meeting more frustrated and with more questions than answers.

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