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Clarence, Susan et al
Recently, the teevee show -Beyond 2000- featured a machine built at
M.I.T. This machine super heated contaminated soil with synthetic
"lightening". The end result was chunks of glass that are impervious to
water,chemically inert and well suited to entrapping radioactivity.
Needless to say it was facinting. It was reported that this system will
be able to process one ton of contaminted soil for about fifty
bucks. $50 X (EPA + State Regulators) = $5000/ton ;={
Not many miles from the house I live in and the ground I farm, lies
Times Beach. A monument to everything wrong with the way the "system"
works. It doesn't work. Ultimatly, one of the corporations responsible
for widespread contamination was paid a handsome sum to clean up its own
mess. Clean up = spew all over the place by incomplete incinertion and
later by leaching of ashes in landfills.
Our community could not find within itself the strength of conviction
that the folks around New Bedford, Massachusetts relied on to stop an
errant EPA and their highly illogical plan to incinerate PCB contminated
dirt. Perhaps that community will be among the first to reap the
benefits of this new technology.
It is too late for this neck of the woods where we now own the dubious
distinction of being exposed to DIE-oxin twice, when once was more than
enough.
A.
---Trying my best in a world that is being TRASHED daily---
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