Word: dioxins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubled town of Times Beach copes with a dioxin scare...
...Bennett puttered about his yard, cleaning up debris and casting watchful glances at the still rain-swollen Meramec River across the road. "I don't know what to think about dioxin," said the 60-year-old construction worker. "I've lived here for 13 years. The birds are still flying, dogs are still running around." Then he bent over to turn up a strip of plywood, revealing a colony of worms in the dirt. "See there. If something was wrong, do you think they'd still be living...
Then, two days before Christmas, the Federal Government released Environmental Protection Agency findings that oil mixed with the deadly poison dioxin, sprayed on unpaved streets a decade ago as a seemingly harmless means to hold down dust, had left dangerous concentrations of the chemical in the soil. But since the EPA samples were taken before Dec. 5, it is still unclear whether the flood waters washed away much of the chemical, making Times Beach safer, or unearthed more dioxin, spreading it throughout the town. The EPA plans new tests, scheduled for this week...
Agent Orange was a mixture of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T that was used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. When these herbicides are manufactured, the formation of a very small amount of a byproduct, TCDD (dioxin), is inavoldable. TCDD was present in these herbicides at a concentration of only a few parts per million. (The process has since been "cleaned up" so that TCDD is produced in concentrations of only parts per billion or trillion.) TCDD was not the active ingredient of Agent Orange, as Mr. Solomon states...
Bloss is known to have sprayed oil contaninated with dioxin in several Jefferson County horse arenas in the early 1970s Horses, birds and small animals later died in those areas. Bloss did not know the oil, obtained from a chemical company, contained the porson