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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2019 16:24:27 GMT
CDAO MEMBER WRITES:
To: William 5Lackner-Clam-Diggers-Association-of-Oregon;
And to think, the cities of North Bend and Coos Bay are continually dumping this stuff within feet of our Estuary and no matter how hard we tried to stop some of this from happening, the solid waste person at DEQ WOULD NOT LISTEN. Told me it was safe! I wonder if anyone has even tested PFAS levels in our oysters, clams, crabs and fish?
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www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/05/biosolids-toxic-chemicals-pollution
Biosolids: mix human waste with toxic chemicals, then spread on crops
Tom Perkins
Sat 5 Oct 2019
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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2019 16:30:09 GMT
THE CDAO RESPONSE TO MEMBER, THE POISIONING OF AMERICA: we have appealed to Governor Brown and all other levels of Oregon State Government to stop applying BIO-SLUDGE to our forest lands, farms, ranches and homes. Their answer is always the same. NO!Land Application of Treated Sewage Sludge: Community Health and Environmental Justice by Amy Lowman, Mary Anne McDonald, Steve Wing and Naeema Muhammad-Published:1 May 2013-https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1205470-Cited by:22. "While the EPA promotes land application, the EPA cannot assure the public that current land application practices are protective of human health and the environment."
The County of Coos Bay has the highest death rate from bladder cancer in Oregon. Refer to the Oregon Health Authority records for Urinary bladder cancer diagnosis and deaths by county, Oregon 2012-2016. Reporter Jillian Ward’s article in the World Newspaper on October 5, 2017 reports:
“COOS COUNTY – Coos County ranks No. 1 for having the highest number of bladder cancer patients in Oregon.
The Oregonian reported numbers from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, showing the top 10 cancers across the state. Not only did Coos County rank high in bladder cancer, but number two for colon, rectum, lung and bronchus cancers.” Studies show a direct link between smoking cigarettes and cancer, however governmental agencies are slow to point responsibility to environmental carcinogens. Fire Retardants and arsenic both common to Oregon's bays are good examples of substances you do not want to consume. How ironic it is that living in a place as beautiful as the Coos Bay area shorten the lifespan with all the various forms of cancers common to the people who live there.
This brings us back to the Villain of Death, the discharging of partially treated sewage into Coo Bay from the class B sewage processing plants in Coos Bay and North Bend. This vile offensive practice is compounded by dumping the leftover Bio-sludge onto marginally productive pastures adjacent to the Coos Bay estuary. This is the same BIO-SLUGE compound fertilizer that is nailing the Coffin lid shut on America's Food Supply. What you eat Will KILL you now!
If we are contaminating our food supply in America then what are they doing to the food we import from Mexico, Chili, Brazil and Argentina? Yummy!
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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2019 17:49:35 GMT
Previously treatment facilities burned sludge or dumped it in the ocean, but the federal government barred the practices because doing so violated clean air rules or created marine dead zones. The EPA now insists spreading the same toxic substance on farmland is safe.
“Spending billions of dollars to remove hazardous chemicals and biological wastes from water, only to spread them on soil everywhere we live, work and play defies common sense,” said David Lewis, a former Environmental Protection Agency scientist who opposed spreading sludge on cropland in the mid-1990s as the agency approved the use.
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2019 1:55:51 GMT
Bladder Cancer and Coos Bay Leading the Way with the No. 1 Bladder Cancer Location in Oregon!
Our member opinioned: "Bill, you might want to check with the Dept. of Agriculture. I know it is that Dept that regularly test the bay to see if it is safe to harvest oysters. I don’t think they test for more than e-choli bacteria but to tell you the truth, I really don’t know. THEY SHOULD BE TESTING for PFAS along with multiple other compounds and if not, why not?
Yes unfortunately, in the current political environment, it appears that $ is more important than the wellbeing of the public. I do not know how to go about changing that except to try and educate the public. An educated public would demand that the public was protected. Unfortunately an uneducated public will accept the fact that Coos County ranks No. 1 for having the highest number of bladder cancer patients in Oregon. Not only did Coos County rank high in bladder cancer, but number two for colon, rectum, lung and bronchus cancers. Given the fact that this is a rural area away from smog and other pollutants, WHY WOULD THAT BE? Alarm bells should be going off around here but….? Everyone is asleep at the switch.
They can try and blame it on smoking all they want to but that is just a cop-out. If people believe that they will believe anything. Our public officials have FAILED us and continue to fail us wanting to add a very hazardous and polluting LNG terminal into this mix. It will be too toxic to live here if the LNG plant becomes a reality.
Coos County ranks high in state for cancer." Thank you member.
Our opinion is by dumping Bio-solids into the Coos River watershed we have Sen. Arnie Roblan, State Rep Caddy Mckeown and Governor Brown to thank for embracing natural resource practices that result with increased Bladder Cancer Oregon leading most unsafe places in Oregon to live.
CDC numbers show Coos County as number one in Oregon for bladder cancer
JILLIAN WARD The World
Oct 5, 2017
theworldlink.com/news/local/coos-county-ranks-high-in-state-for-cancer/article_78af0564-d647-54ac-abba-588cdff1ef08.html
William Lackner
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