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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1795704" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>Another mess caused by the EPA .</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=62213" target="_blank">Greensboro: Another Ecological Disaster Brought to You by the EPA</a></strong></span> </p><p></p><p></p><p>In Greensboro [Georgia], EPA-funded contractors grading a toxic 19th-century cotton mill site struck a water main, sending the deadly sediment into a nearby creek. Though that accident took place five months ago, the hazard continues as heavy storms — one hit the area Tuesday — wash more soil into the creek.</p><p></p><p>The sediment flows carry dangerous mercury, lead, arsenic and chromium downstream to Lake Oconee and then to the Oconee River — <a href="http://garivers.org/other-georgia-rivers/oconee-river.html" target="_blank">home to many federally and state protected species</a>.</p><p></p><p>Lead in the soil at the project site is 20,000 times higher than federal levels established for drinking water, said microbiologist Dave Lewis, who was a top-level scientist during 31 years at the Environmental Protection Agency.</p><p></p><p>He became a whistleblower critical of EPA practices and now works for <a href="https://www.focusforhealth.org/environmental-toxins-public-health-greensboro/" target="_blank">Focus for Health</a>, a nonprofit that researches disease triggers.</p><p></p><p>“Clearly, the site is a major hazardous chemical waste dump, which contains many of the most dangerous chemical pollutants regulated by the EPA,” Lewis wrote in a 2014 affidavit for a court case filed by local residents that failed to prevent the EPA project: creating a low-income housing development.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The mill site contains 34 hazardous chemicals, 30 of which are on the EPA’s list of priority pollutants because of “high toxicity, persistence, lack of degradability, and harmful effects on living organisms,” Lewis wrote. …</p><p></p><p>The Environmental Protection Agency has denied — but now admits — that it funded the cleanup and development project the triggered the catastrophe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1795704, member: 12952"] Another mess caused by the EPA . [SIZE=5][B][URL='http://moonbattery.com/?p=62213']Greensboro: Another Ecological Disaster Brought to You by the EPA[/URL][/B][/SIZE] In Greensboro [Georgia], EPA-funded contractors grading a toxic 19th-century cotton mill site struck a water main, sending the deadly sediment into a nearby creek. Though that accident took place five months ago, the hazard continues as heavy storms — one hit the area Tuesday — wash more soil into the creek. The sediment flows carry dangerous mercury, lead, arsenic and chromium downstream to Lake Oconee and then to the Oconee River — [URL='http://garivers.org/other-georgia-rivers/oconee-river.html']home to many federally and state protected species[/URL]. Lead in the soil at the project site is 20,000 times higher than federal levels established for drinking water, said microbiologist Dave Lewis, who was a top-level scientist during 31 years at the Environmental Protection Agency. He became a whistleblower critical of EPA practices and now works for [URL='https://www.focusforhealth.org/environmental-toxins-public-health-greensboro/']Focus for Health[/URL], a nonprofit that researches disease triggers. “Clearly, the site is a major hazardous chemical waste dump, which contains many of the most dangerous chemical pollutants regulated by the EPA,” Lewis wrote in a 2014 affidavit for a court case filed by local residents that failed to prevent the EPA project: creating a low-income housing development. The mill site contains 34 hazardous chemicals, 30 of which are on the EPA’s list of priority pollutants because of “high toxicity, persistence, lack of degradability, and harmful effects on living organisms,” Lewis wrote. … The Environmental Protection Agency has denied — but now admits — that it funded the cleanup and development project the triggered the catastrophe. [/QUOTE]
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