Word: dumps
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...some 40 years, beginning in the 1930s, the Velsicol Chemical Co. (formerly the Michigan Chemical Co.) had dumped and burned toxic industrial chemicals on a 3.5-acre site along the Pine River near St. Louis, Mich. A county golf course was developed beside the dump. By the mid-'60s, fish in the river contained high levels of such known or suspected carcinogens as PBB, PCB and DDT. Working with EPA, the company in 1982 agreed to spend $38.5 million to clean up the area. At the golf course, all soil was removed to a depth of 3 ft. below...
However, what about the residents of Emelle and Geneva? Have they inherited the old headaches of Greenville and Cleveland? Perhaps not immediately, since the dump at Emelle sits atop hundreds of feet of clay, and the one at Geneva at least has the now mandatory clay liner. But most experts consider any landfill only a temporary solution to the chemical-waste problem. Eventually, all will develop cracks or gradually give way to the corrosive action of the potent chemicals...
...selection of Rita Lavelle, a California publicist who had worked for a chemical company (Aerojet General Corp.), to direct the Superfund start-up. In the mismanagement that followed, Lavelle was convicted of perjury for denying any involvement in EPA's dealings with the Stringfellow Acid Pits, a notorious waste dump in California, where Aerojet General, along with many other companies, had dumped tons of caustics, cyanides and heavy metals over the years. Burford was also charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to give it some internal EPA documents; the charge was dropped after she quit in March...
...dump may indeed be part of the solution. The federal Superfund pays Casmalia Resources to take wastes collected in the cleanup of the notorious Stringfellow Acid Pits near Los Angeles. But even this up-to-date site is a problem for the 300 people who live just over the hills in the town of Casmalia. A little more than a year ago, it seems, fumes started drifting down over the town. Jim Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire...
...direction of the school board, McCalip, who has a law degree, asked the county attorney to seek an injunction against the waste dump. "The county counsel told me that I wasn't playing ball, that I had teed off all the county officials. He said, 'Hey, Ken, this isn't the way we do it in Santa Barbara County.' " There was little sympathy from county officials who investigated. "The wind kicks up," McCalip explains, "and the fumes are gone. They think you're crazy." Out-of-town acquaintances were dubious...