[CPEO-BIF] Arsenic in Swann Park, south Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Allied kept mum on arsenic, report says
Chemical firm's test showed city park was poisoned


By Tom Pelton
Baltimore Sun (MD)
July 10, 2007

The Allied Chemical Company three decades ago deliberately with held 
test results showing high arsenic levels in a south Baltimore park, a 
city task force concludes in a report released Tuesday.

The task force found that Allied Chemical allowed local health officials 
in 1976 to falsely believe that levels of arsenic in Swann Park were low 
and resulted from the city's routine spraying of weed killer.

But internal documents show the company knew that large amounts of 
arsenic -- a carcinogen -- billowed through torn filters on smokestacks 
of the Allied pesticide factory next to the park, and at one point 
blanketed the ballfields "like snow," according to the report by the 
Swann Park Task Force.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-arsenic0710,0,6938730.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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