[CPEO-BIF] "Citizens protest TCE contamination, " Camdenton, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘Clean water is a right’ -- Citizens protest TCE contamination

By CODY MROCZKA 
Lake News Online
July 5, 2017 

The protest was organized in response to the release of a 1999 Combined Preliminary Assessment / Site Inspection Report with supporting documentation released by MDNR in late May 2017.

Armed with homemade signs and the undeniable First Amendment right to gather peacefully in protest, citizens of Camden County flocked to the downtown square in Camdenton Monday evening for a public demonstration designed to bring awareness to the ongoing chemical contamination affecting residents.

The protest was organized by the Camden County Contamination Board, a public Facebook group that has grown to more than 1,100 members in the last three months.

The group is dedicated to researching and discussing trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination and other pollution caused by untreated industrial wastewater from a former manufacturing plant owned and operated by Dawson, Hamilton-Sundstrand and later by Modine Manufacturing Inc. to the city-owned Hulett Lagoon from 1967 to 1987, which infiltrated the city-owned Mulberry Well in the 1990s. The lagoon and well no longer serve the city.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lakenewsonline.com/news/20170705/clean-water-is-right----citizens-protest-tce-contamination

For background, see
http://www.cpeo.org/brownfields/reports/C-D/Camdenton.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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