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Posted: 8:52 PM Feb 28, 2010
Stockpile Center to Clean Up Mess
The Defense National Stockpile Center has reached an agreement with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to clean up a building on its former location in Point Pleasant.
Reporter: The Associated PressEmail Address: news@wsaz.com |
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POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. (AP) -- The Defense National Stockpile Center has reached an agreement with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to clean up a building on its former location in Point Pleasant.
The now-vacant 27,560-square-foot building was originally used to store approximately 1,681 metric tons of liquid mercury in more than 40,000 flasks. It was part of the federal center's role as a storage place for materials used to manufacture defense materials.
The state agency's Office of Environmental Remediation has negotiated a voluntary agreement with the center. It includes provisions for identifying human health and ecological risks associated with current and potential future uses of the site in order to establish appropriate cleanup standards.
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If an individual would have done anything like this they would be doing time and paying so many fines that they'd have literally no assets for the next (at least) ten years. Examples can even be seen where somehow the individual manages to get caught depositing their own individual trash in the improper manner. But when it's done by such a large organization and done in a manner using such dangerous materials; and also in a manner that poses an imminent danger to both short term health and long term- then somehow it is completely overlooked for very long periods of time. Whatever happened to all of the oversight and enforcement? Does anyone on the local, county, state, or even federal level have anything to say? It also makes one wonder; this so called national defense stockpile- supposed to be contributing towards protecting Americans; instead they like to poison them! Perhaps war should be declared on this organization; after all they attacked us first!
Wow... I had no idea that my town was poisoned like this. This makes me very angry and would like to start a class action lawsuit against the government; I suggest others join me. You all now know why I am angry like an aligator all the time!!!
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