{"id":3011,"date":"2013-04-18T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2013-04-18T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:54:52","slug":"when-contamination-gets-into-the-watershed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/when-contamination-gets-into-the-watershed.html","title":{"rendered":"When contamination gets into the watershed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n\"Fort<\/a>\r\nUnderground may be out of sight, but it just keeps seeping farther,\r\ngetting into more wells, poisoning more wetlands, and getting into the air,\r\ncausing cancer and other diseases.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nKatie Leslie and Shannon McCaffrey wrote for the AJC 13 April 2013,\r\n\r\n20 years later, Fort Gillem contamination still spreading<\/a>,\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

\r\nIn the early 1990s the U.S. Army discovered hazardous chemicals\r\ndumped at Fort Gillem seeping into residential wells in neighboring\r\nForest Park. The finding prompted the military to pass out bottled\r\nwater and convert many residents to a county water system from their\r\nprivate wells.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nBut two decades and a base closure later, state officials say the\r\nArmy still hasn’t done enough to clean up known and suspected\r\ncarcinogens that are migrating from groundwater into surface water\r\nand, potentially, into the air residents breathe.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"groundwater<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\r\nWe might want to think about that before\r\n\r\nimporting coal ash<\/a>; oh, wait,\r\n\r\nwe already did!<\/a>\r\nMaybe at least we should not import any more of it.\r\nWe already have\r\n\r\ncancer-causing arsenic in some of our wells<\/a>; we don’t need more.\r\nAnd what about that\"Floridan<\/a>\r\n\r\nradioactive tritium leaking into groundwater from Plant Hatch<\/a>?\r\nThat’s also in our\r\n\r\nFloridan Aquifer<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nRegarding coal ash at the local landfill, do we want to end up like Clayton County?\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nEarlier this year, state officials grew so impatient that they turned\r\nto the environmental equivalent of the nuclear option: They asked the\r\nU.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weigh the possibility of making\r\nFort Gillem a Superfund site. That outcome could effectively kill a plan\r\nto transform the abandoned post into something Clayton County desperately\r\nneeds, a job-creating industrial hub.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nOur local Industrial Authority and Chamber of Commerce might want to\r\ntake a hand in what goes into our local landfill.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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