[CPEO-BIF] "Grand Prairie [Texas] Latinos want answers about hazardous waste site"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

A toxic neighbor: Grand Prairie Latinos want answers about hazardous waste site
Numerous residents in the predominantly Latino Burbank Gardens neighborhood said they’ve been told little or nothing about air, soil and groundwater poisoned by TCE, a known human carcinogen.

By Alejandra Martinez
KERA Public Radio (Dallas, TX)
December 3, 2021



The Beltrán family always stocks two to three cases of bottled water in the cluttered garage of their home in Grand Prairie. They’ve used it to drink and cook for 15 years, and they trek to the nearest Walmart to stay fully stocked.

“Nosotros llegamos aquí y el agua estaba salada, súper salada. Nosotros compramos garrafones de agua para cocinar,” Santa Barbara Beltrán, 72, said in Spanish. “We got here and the water was salty, super salty. We buy jugs of water for cooking.”

Her family has lived in Grand Prairie, west of Dallas, for over 30 years,. She said it’s a common belief among her neighbors that Grand Prairie’s water is not safe to drink because “contamination floods the streets of the neighborhood.”

Beltrán said she knew nothing about the Superfund toxic waste site two blocks away. But it’s possible the talk she’d heard for years about contaminated water wasn’t about Grand Prairie’s drinking water, but referred to a plume of highly polluted groundwater that’s spread beneath the neighborhood.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.keranews.org/environment-nature/2021-12-03/a-toxic-neighbor-grand-prairie-latinos-want-answers-about-epa-superfund-site

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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