2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Hoechst Fibers, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
 
Contaminated Groundwater Creeps Into Community

By Chris Cato
WSPA TV-7 News (Spartanburg, SC)
May 20, 2011

They called it Cannon's Campground.

In the early 1800s, churches held weeks-long camp meetings on a piece of land about seven miles east of Spartanburg. It was owned by a man named Elijah Cannon. Local history books say the campers were drawn and sustained by natural springs that flowed up from the ground. Over the decades, a community sprang up.

...

Our investigation raised questions about chemicals that were released into the environment by a plastic fibers plant located on Interstate 85 near mile marker 80. (The plant occupies 670 acres on the north side of 85 next to the Pacolet River; on the south side is the Cannon’s Campground community). Many of the chemicals are rated by various world and national health agencies as known carcinogens and probable carcinogens.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.wspa.com/news/2011/may/16/13/toxic-chemicals-released- upstate-community-ar-1851437/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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