EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -

The impacts of the disaster in East Palestine continue to ripple more than two weeks later

 
Some folks who visit East Palestine Park often during the spring and summer say Norfolk Southern needs to do more to clean up what they call a chemical cesspool.
 
They say they want the park restored so it is safe for babies, children, adults and pets.
 
WFMJ News spoke with some people and we're asking Norfolk Southern to provide it's plans for clean up of the park and nearby waterway.
 
Richard and Nancy Skullin enjoy taking their grandson and their dog Riley to East Palestine Park weather permitting year around, where they enjoy the creek. But they say Norfolk Southern Train Derailment has destroyed this natural resource they all enjoyed so much.
 
"We take our dog too. She just loves it and we just have a great time of course. We can't do that anymore. We don't want the dog drinking the water and I don't want to expose my grandson to those toxins," said Nancy Skullin.
 
"In the summer there are kids playing on the rocks, they spend their whole afternoons down there going creek walking having a great time. It's beautiful," 
 
No longer able to enjoy the park they believe Norfolk Southern is not doing enough or bringing in enough people for clean up of Leslie Run and the chemicals are getting trapped under rocks and along the creek and river beds. 
 
Richard tells us he walked the trails in the back of the park about 150 times a year, but now he and others can't.
 
It's disgusting. It stinks. It's full, the whole creek is full. It's not you go to one spot and you find it. You can go anywhere in that whole one and a half stretch mile," said Richard Skullin.
 
They believe the company is being cheap by not bringing in more workers to restore the park to make it safe again for kids, parents, and grandchildren and folks in East Palestine and surrounding villages.
 
"When you pollute a city's park that's pretty bad and they're not addressing it," Richard Skullin added.
 
"From what I hear they have billions of dollars and they cfan afford to do it right," Nancy Skullin emphasized.
 
We have reached out to Norfolk Southern to find out details about what they can do help speed up the clean up of waterways that run thorugh the park and the banks along creeks, and streams.