[CPEO-BIF] Marantha Faith Center, Columbus, Mississippi

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Church pastor asks city to investigate soil contamination


Neal Wagner
Columbus Commercial Dispatch (MS)
August 5, 2009


Columbus officials during the next few weeks will consider working with 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine if a black 
substance discovered near a local church is a toxic industrial byproduct.

The announcement came after the Rev. Steve Jamison, pastor of the 
Marantha Faith Center on Waterworks Road, spoke with the Columbus City 
Council during a Tuesday night meeting.

During the meeting, Jamison and Tennie White, president of the 
Troubleshooters consultant company in Jackson, requested the city ask 
the EPA to thoroughly investigate the area around the church for 
creosote contamination.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=2407

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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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