[CPEO-BIF] Mississippi Coast DuPont plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In Miss., DuPont awash in lawsuits
Toxic waste cases offer glimpse of what could happen here

By JEFF MONTGOMERY
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
April 30, 2006

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. -- Mixed with the wreckage and the heartache left 
behind by Hurricane Katrina is a lingering suspicion of the DuPont Co. 
-- a suspicion that divides some residents of this shattered Gulf Coast 
community.

It is an uneasiness Louis Maynard is quick to share even as he struggles 
to right his life after riding out Katrina's flooding atop his shattered 
family home. The tiny wood-frame cottage, hauled away in pieces earlier 
this year, stood just west of DuPont's 3,500-acre DeLisle titanium 
dioxide pigment complex -- a younger, larger cousin to the Edge Moor 
pigment plant east of Wilmington.

"We haven't drunk our water here for at least five years. Not since they 
came around and started talking about what DuPont's pumping into the 
ground," said Maynard, whose elderly neighbor drowned in Katrina's 
flooding. Today, Maynard lives in a tiny, federally supplied trailer 
with his wife, Janice.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060430/NEWS/604300408/-1/NEWS01

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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