[CPEO-BIF] Old Fort Finishing site, McDowell County, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

A common thread linking Old Fort cancer cases?

By Britt Combs
The McDowell News (NC)
June 8, 2009

For over a year now, McDowell County's Omar McCourry has been digging 
into the history of Old Fort industry and of environmental protection in 
the community.

Spurred by the tragic death of his brother, Curtis, to brain cancer in 
2004, he learned that his brother's illness was not unique in Old Fort, 
despite the condition's relative rarity among the greater population.

...

In 1989, more than 100 barrels of industrial waste were located buried 
on the site of the former Old Fort Finishing. These were excavated and 
found to contain dozens of chemicals as well as metals including lead, 
mercury, arsenic. EPA documents McCourry obtained said that 70 of the 
barrels had been crushed or decayed when they were unearthed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/jun/08/common-thread-linking-old-fort-cancer-cases/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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