[CPEO-BIF] Hexavalent chromium, Smalley-Piper Industries, Collierville, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Truth: Read The Story

Keli Rabon
WREG TV-3 News (Memphis, TN)
July 13, 2009


(Collierville, TN 7/13/09) Trapped in time, the Smalley-Piper Industries 
property in Collierville has been abandoned for years. But the hazardous 
waste and deadly chemicals still locked behind rusted gates are holding 
a community hostage.

But it's the contamination you can't see -- unfazed by fences or 
padlocks -- that make this old factory one of the nation's most 
dangerous and contaminated Superfund sites.

"The longer these sites sit, the more potential for disaster," Dr. Steve 
Winberry, a toxicologist, says.

That's bad news for people like Lucianna Jones. She lives just a stone's 
throw away from Smalley-Piper.

"It was a neighborhood plant a lot of the young men on the street worked 
at, you could just walk to work," she recalls. Jones has lived there her 
entire life, 31 years.

....

For the entire story, see
http://www.wreg.com/news/onyourside/toxictruth/wreg-toxic-truth,0,6753122.story?page=1

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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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