Asarco secret document: ASARCO Tacoma contaminated over 1000 square miles (and it was a smaller smelter than El Paso's)

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

ASARCO Tacoma contaminated over 1000 square miles (and it was a smaller smelter than El Paso's)

"Air pollution from the Tacoma smelter settled on the surface soil over a vast region – more than 1,000 square miles of the Puget Sound basin. Elevated levels of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals polluted soil and groundwater around the region."

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2009news/2009-137.html

Imagine how many square miles the Asarco El Paso stacks contaminated. 1000 square miles is over 15 miles away from the stacks --- and this would include the Santa Teresa international development, Petroleum tank farms, and other industries being built within the "ZONE".

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We know know that Asarco, Dupont and Englehard --- all caught by EPA and the US DOJ as sending illegal wastes to be burned here (the EPA still refused to release the invoices listed by ID numbers in the 1998 73 page US DOJ EPA secret document NYTimes 10/2006) were US DOE HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL CONTRACTORS. TO THIS DAY none of them have been held responsible through the bankruptcy court for ANY of the illegal waste disposal damage to our community and its water. It is very likely that they hid under the protection of the 1940's Atomic energy act (see book on rocky flats plutonium site by Karen Iversen).

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Asarco secret document

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

ASARCO Tacoma contaminated over 1000 square miles (and it was a smaller smelter than El Paso's)

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