[CPEO-BIF] Hoechst Fibers, Spartanburg County, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
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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