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...September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits used a huge tread-mounted pump to dig out a 10-ft. plug of earth for testing by the EPA. Their gas masks hung nearby, just above the spot where a dark little stream flows from the toxic site under the fence and away into the forest. For now, the locals who are worried are waiting. They await the results of more soil and water tests, and the results of more precisely targeted health studies. Most of all, naturally, they await results at the site itself. They want...
First you tear up 250 acres of California ranchland. Then you fill the holes with tons of sewage, cyanide, Nair hair-removal cream, spoiled Coca-Cola syrup, winery dregs, rocket fuel, rat carcasses, nitric acid, paint chips and fish organs. What do you get? A state-of-the-art toxic-waste-treatment facility...
Because Casmalia is unincorporated, the school is the only government outpost in town, which is one reason it has become the rallying point for antidump % activity. Another reason is Kenneth McCalip, the school's principal, who has become the town's toxic-waste spokesman and organizer. Last fall, says McCalip, "it would get really yucky in the lunchroom." Nauseated children were being sent home early. One day in November he evacuated the whole school, all 21 students. "The wind died down, and the odors got so darn bad. The fumes started rolling into our classrooms, more than we'd ever...
...matter how carefully Casmalia Resources goes about its business, says Lachenmaier, the p.r. director, some of the people who live nearby will remain unhappy. "They have a provincial view of the situation," she says. "They don't want us to exist--and that's the bottom line." Toxic waste must go somewhere, she pleads. Why not here...
...industries face the growing problem of how to deal with toxic wastes, which now total an awesome 300 million tons generated each year, they have increasingly turned to new technologies. Science has yet to find foolproof ways of getting rid of all polysyllabic perils. But it has come up with a number of alternatives to simple dumping...