Who is arcadis

 Arcadis.com

"Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life."

Yeah, right. Using 20 plus year old slag that releases 100% of its contaminants over a 100 years, so it can wash downriver.

This year 2024 the EPWU says 50% of our drinking water will come from the rio grande.

Now who will eventually pay the $$$ to remove the contaminants from the water? Future generations.  You may see a gradual rising (eventually sky high) of your storm water fee, because the contaminants will go there, into stormwater and the river. 

The rich are already putting osmosis filters into their homes. Where do the filters go when full? Our landfills, which then may drain if not careful into our arroyos, to the  river and thus our water.

But we dont have to hold asarco responsible, right? EPA is toothless now, run by attorneys and contractors. The epa database has gotten rid of all my asarco foias, and incorrectly stated that the last (only one in their new database) had no response (it id, six searchable dvds.) The wa- d.c.- foia-attorney refuses to open the email showing him the actual response although he was cooperative over the phone 🙄🤔🤣

We all crave safety: a job, a home, education for the kids, good safe foods, retirement.  We fail at times to speak up when these are affected at a slow pot boil (ie frog in a warming pan). 

You all are in a slow pot boil.

May God help us all because what they burned at asarco for a decade (more, imho) was worst of the bad, and after i got the 73 page document released thru nytimes and the el paso site shut down, they moved it to Hayden, arizona - - now a superfund (just like east helena mt, which received what el paso tx received/burned.)

The cleanup trustee never looked at the invoices/contaminants listed in that nytimes revealed document. Those invoices are in the public domain because they are listed in the back of a now public document---- but, are still kept sealed. No journalist or attorney has ever gone after those.

We do not know the level of following contaminants:

Pcbs

Dioxins

Forever chemicals used in firefighting foams

Beta radioactive particles (reported by epa to be highest in the usa in 1998 El Paso TX)

And others just as bad or worse

Read this!!!!

Asarco cleanup trustee keeps trying to sell off asarco toxic land without disclosing ANY of the contaminants listed in back of the now public (10/2006) document's invoice list (see 1998 usdoj epa asarco 73 page confidential for settlement purposes only (now public) document). 

A huge huge arsenic bubble is right underneath the main smelter site. Can't smell, taste that chemical. 

Slag releases its toxins gradually until after 100 years about all is released. If you do not believe, put a piece in a zip lock bag and look at bag after a week- most pieces will off-gas and puff up the bag! We use it as lawn gravel. 😟

Channel ends at asarco site, which keeps its old (but renewed) water permit to discharge water to state route (paisano).  They do their best, but some day we may be paying huge storm water fees to remove asarco's toxic waste from water we need to reuse. 

See picture of the guy overseeing lining of storm water channel with toxic black slag. Slag exposed to the wind.

He wears an ARCADIS private contractor shirt.