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Campaigns
Air Quality
Superfund Sites:
Water Quality Brunswick Wood Preserving
Education
Hercules 009
LCP Chemicals
Terry Creek
Air Quality
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Georgia-Pacific
Pulp and Paper Mill. |
Pulp
Mill Requests 12,200,000 Pounds Annual Increase in Air Pollution, April 2007
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11th Circuit Court Dismisses Air Case, August 2006
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GEC Air Case at Crucial Ruling, June 2006
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EPA Fights Efforts to Protect School Children from
Toxic Air Pollution in Brunswick, Georgia, April 2006
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Clean Air Case Continues, February 2006
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GEC comments on EPA proposal to remove cumulative air quality rule from GA
clean air implementation plan, December 29, 2005
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EPA seeking to remove cumulative air
quality protections for Georgians, December 23, 2005
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Oral Arguments Set in Air Case, October 2005
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Air Case Now With 11th Circuit Court,
August 24, 2005
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Does Brunswick Have Healthy Air?,
July 2005
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Clean Air Appeal Filed in 11th Circuit Court,
July 2005
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GEC Files Notice of Appeal in Air Permit Case,
March 2005
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EPA
Issues Air Case Decision, January 2005
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What's in our air and
potential health effects
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How industry remained unregulated in the
past
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How industry remains unregulated now and our
suit for clean air, March 3, 2004
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Hazardous air pollution summary 1998-2000
(most recent data)
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Disappearing permit applications, Feb. 8, 2002
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Water Quality
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A dark plume follows the incoming tide in Turtle River as fire equipment
puts out another fire in the Georgia-Pacific dump. |
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Georgia Water Management Plan, Nov. 2007 |
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Pulp
Mill Request to Increase Air Pollution Has Water Quality Implications, April
2007
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Pulp Mill Pollution
Case Continues, August 2005
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Turtle
River Seafood Consumption Advisory
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Education
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Glynn County Denies Request for
Contaminated Seafood Awareness Funding, April 3, 2007 |
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Seafood Safe Consumption Campaign |
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Clyde Williams, community outreach
coordinator for the Environmental Justice project, places the educational flyer at one of Glynn County's
many public boat ramps
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Originally funded by an Environmental
Justice grant from the EPA, for the purpose of community education to reduce
the risks from locally contaminated seafood, the GEC is continuing this
project on its own.
Click
below for PDF copy of FULL COLOR FLYER on catching, preparing, and eating
fish in Glynn County:
 
Mussels
of the Altamaha River - with teacher's plan
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| Superfund Sites
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The GEC provides technical assistance for our 4
Superfund Sites, organizes our community, and helps with submitting comments: |
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Note: for
Technical Assistance Reports not found here, go to
www.Enviro-Issues.net |
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RECENT SUPERFUND SITE MEETINGS
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LCP
Chemicals Superfund Site
LCP Chemicals Upland Feasibility Plan, August, 2007
LCP Legal Case and How It Affected the GEC,
February, 2007
Meeting
about removal of caustic brine and mercury, October 18, 2006
LCP plume of contamination is growing, Sept. 13, 2006
LCP Chemicals Superfund Site Groundwater Monitoring Shows
Plume Movements, June 2006
Plant Site May
Receive Rehabilitation, June 7, 2006
Caustic Brine and
Chemicals Enter Drinking Water Aquifer at LCP Chemicals Superfund Site,
April 2006
Residents Seek Aid on
Pollution, March 29, 2006
LCP Chemicals Site Mercury/Caustic
Brine Pool Receiving EPA Attention, June 23, 2005
LCP Chemicals Superfund Site ARCO Neighborhood Soil Sampling Results,
June 2005
Study finds lead in Arco,
June 22, 2005
LCP Still Leaking Mercury Into Drinking
Water
No Action Date, No Plan from EPA, April 2005
Arco Neighborhood Sampling Results
Withheld by EPA, April 2005
Arco
Neighborhood Sampled
Results Expected in February 2005
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ARCO Neighborhood
Testing Plan Revised, September 2004
- GEC Comments on
Arco Sampling Plan, June 2004
- LCP Chemicals ARCO
Neighborhood
Testing Plan, May 2004
- Arco Community Meeting
- Sampling Plan for LCP Chemicals Superfund Site Contamination, Saturday, May 22, 2004, 10:00 AM
LCP Marsh Seeps Phytoremediation review, October
2003
Broken Promises by the EPA has left the Arco Neighborhood
untested:
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EPA Again Urged to Study Cleanup
Site,
Agency Promises Thorough Testing, Sept. 4, 2003
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Arco Danger is Unclear, Sept. 4, 2003
LCP Chemicals Site Neighborhood Testing Review, June 2003
LCP Chemicals Marshlands Feasibility
Studies, April 2002
LCP Chemicals Site Baseline Risk Assessment,
January 2002
Ex-LCP Officials Sentenced,
January 31, 2001
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GEC
President, Bill Owens, and technical advisor Dr. Pegg ask about groundwater
mercury removal plans
The Arco community came out in force for the
June 23, 2005 public meeting to share results of toxic sampling in the
community.
The Arco community met with the EPA
and toxicologist from the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry on
September 28, 2004, to discuss sampling plans and health information.
Testing the Arco neighborhood was
identified as a priority in 1996. The community met with the EPA on September 3, 2003, and shortly
thereafter the EPA agreed to test the Arco neighborhood. As of April
1, 2004, no sampling has occurred.
PCB impregnated anodes were used to construct the water treatment basin.
Seafood has been extensively contaminated in Turtle River. |
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| Brunswick Wood Preserving Superfund Site
Brunswick Wood
Preserving Containment Scheduled for Start - An Overview of the Issues,
April 2007
Residents in Glynn want EPA to
come clean, April 5, 2007
Residents fretting over
water quality, April 4, 2007
Residents Near Site
Still Concerned, March 28, 2007
GEC Receives
Inquiries about Properties Near Brunswick Wood Preserving Superfund Site,
February 2007
Tainted Site Riles Nearby
Residents, October 12, 2005
Brunswick Wood Preserving Superfund Site
Floods Floraville Neighborhood, October 2005
Brunswick Wood Preserving Remedial Design,
December 2004
Ready, Set, STOP! Brunswick Wood Preserving Superfund
Site Cleanup, From the October 2004 EPA Update
Recent Brunswick Wood Preserving Studies Show
Neighborhood Concern is Justified, December 2000
Human Health Assessment Shows Information
Gaps, August 2000
Feasibility Study Options, December, 1999
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 The
four acre pond of creosote, copper chromium arsenate, and pentachlorophenol dominated the west end of the 84-acre Brunswick Wood Preserving Superfund
Site. |
Terry
Creek Dredge Spoil Areas/Hercules Outfall Site
Technical Assistance Update, November 2007 Public Health Assessment Questions
Toxaphene Analysis Method, February 2003
Review
of the Terry Creek Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study Workplan,
Sampling and Analysis Plan, and Quality Assurance Plan, September 2001
Site Summary and
Technical Overview, Part I June, 1999
Toxaphene
Technical Overview, Part 2 , June 1999
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 The pesticide toxaphene was manufactured from 1948 to 1980 at the Hercules
Plant. Several million pounds of toxaphene were released to the
estuary, contaminating seafood. |
| Hercules 009 Landfill Superfund Site
Altama Elementary School - More
Factual and Scientific Inaccuracies from the EPA - EPA Refuses to Test
School, February 2008
EPA won't retract
Incorrect Statements, October 24, 2007
Dr. Bull Supports
Efforts to Test Altama Elementary, October 2007
Altama
Elementary School Testing sought, July 30, 2007
Technical Assistance Grant
closed, December 2006
Inspector General’s Final Response to EPA’s Plan
to Continue Underestimating Toxaphene, December 2006
Comments to OIG from
national environmentalists support GEC's opposition to EPA efforts to
continue underquantification of toxaphene, October 10, 2006
GEC comments on EPA
response to OIG Report, September 9, 2006
Technical
Assistance Report critique of EPA basis for trying to continue
under-quantification of toxaphene, August 2006
Superfund Site may be
used as commercial car parking lot, August 14, 2006
009 Site
Is Back on Tax Rolls, July 2006
EPA Responds to
Office of Inspector General Report on Hercules 009 Landfill Superfund Site,
June 2006
Former
Landfill Becomes Storage Site, May 31, 2006
EPA Response to
Office of Inspector General Report Expected March 22, 2006
Second Report issued by EPA
Inspector General on Toxaphene testing in Glynn County, December 2005
EPA
Requests 90 Day Extension for Response to First Office of Inspector General
Report, December 2005
Comment from the Glynn
Environmental Coalition on the Office of Inspector General Ombudsman Report,
Appropriate Testing and Timely Reporting Are Needed at the Hercules 009
Landfill Superfund Site, Brunswick, Georgia, Report 2005-P-00022, September
26, 2005, comments of Dec. 19, 2005
Hercules Has Tax Exemption on
009 Superfund Site, November 2005
Toxaphene Analysis Flawed,
October 2005
EPA Toxaphene Testing Method Found Inappropriate,
October 2005
Delayed timetable for EPA Inspector General audit of the Hercules 009
Landfill Superfund Site, February 2005
GEC Comments Regarding the Five-Year Review
Report for the
Hercules 009 Landfill Superfund Site, June 2004
Five-Year Review Study Provides No
Assurances
on Effectiveness of Cleanup, June 2004
How To Hide the Poison: an analysis of the
faulty toxaphene analytical methodology used in Brunswick, GA, January 2001
009 Landfill Final Treatment: "Fast and
Cheap Remedial Design",
September 1999
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GEC Comments on EPA's
January 29, 2008, presentation
EPA's January 29, 2008,
presentation
Click here for lessons
learned from managing this grant.
[Click
here
for PDF version of this document] |
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009 Landfill Superfund Site.
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009
Remedial Design: Questions and Responses, April 1998
Final Remedial Design
Report for the 009 Landfill NPL Site, March 1998
In Situ
Stabilization Protects Groundwater at the 009 Site, April 1996
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