Germantown, Tennessee, employee put on leave after human error partially caused water crisis
A Germantown, Tennessee, employee was put on leave after finding human error partially caused contamination that left residents without clean water for over a week Germantown, Tennessee, has placed a city employee on administrative leave after a diesel spill contaminated the town's water supply and left some residents without access to clean tap water for over a week. The city determined the diesel spill "was in part due to human error by a tenured employee ," the city confirmed to ABC News. The employee will remain on administrative leave pending the completion of an investigation, according to the city. There may be water in Germantown but as of Wednesday, not a single drop of it is deemed safe enough to drink for a majority of the city. WATN Residents in Germantown, a suburb of Memphis, were told not to use tap water after people reported a strong odor to their tap water on July 20. An investigation into the the cause revealed that diesel fuel was leaking into an und...