Stop Toxic Dumping at the Historic Cataldo Mission

Please help Stop Toxic Dumping at the Historic Cataldo Mission by signing the petition.

August 2010 FACT SHEET

Join the Cause, this is the BP of the NW and learn more here and on facebook

This is the epicenter of the nation's largest Superfund site incorporating 1500 square miles.

EPA allows for toxic dumps in wetlands to be closed in other states as not acceptable!

Yet Region X EPA builds toxic dump sites in wetlands because they are "convenient".

The toxic dump of concern in this post is located at Idaho's oldest building, which is on Sacred Lands of the Salish people and a National Historic site.

Volunteers needed, donations needed...

Photo shows flooding in July 2010 at the EMF Cataldo Mission repository.

The Toxic Spill - Another Coverup

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kellogg-ID/Silver-Valley-Action/144278483011

Corn and Dead Zones in the Gulf

While you get a lot or reporting on the BP spill, how about lack of coverage on the impact of the corn based ethanol dead zone in the gulf?

And has anyone bothered to ask how all the GMO corn and soy beans will effect the biochemistry of the Gulf waters as well as marine life or land life?

This isn't too different than the cover-up you never hear about in Idaho's Silver Valley at the nation's largest Superfund site.

Excerpt from Dead Zone in Gulf Linked to Ethanol Production
by Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Corn is biggest culprit

The gulf dead zone is the second-largest in the world, after one in the Baltic Sea. Scientists say the biggest culprit is industrial-scale corn production. Corn growers are heavy users of both nitrogen and pesticides. Vast monocultures of corn and soybeans, both subsidized by the federal government, have displaced diversified farms and grasslands throughout the Mississippi Basin.

"The subsidies are driving farmers toward more corn," said Gene Turner, a zoologist at Louisiana State University. "More nitrate comes off corn fields than it does off of any other crop by far. And nitrogen is driving the formation of the dead zone."

The dead zone, he said, is "a symptom of the homogenization of the landscape. We just have a few crops on what used to have all kinds of different vegetation."

In 2007, Congress passed a renewable fuels standard that requires ethanol production to triple in the next 12 years. The Department of Agriculture has just rolled out a plan to meet that goal, including building ethanol refineries in every state. The Environmental Protection Agency will decide soon whether to increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline blends from 10 percent to 15 percent.

A 2008 National Research Council report warned of a "considerable" increase in damage to the gulf if ethanol production is increased.

Pet cause of Congress

Read complete article http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/MNF91E84SL.DTL

Lead and Your Health

While this is of interest historically,lead exposure remains a serious and oft over-looked problem to the people in Idaho's Silver Valley. It is Toxic America
The Secret History of Lead
Since the virtual disappearance of leaded gas in the United States (it's still sold for use in propeller airplanes), the mean blood-lead level of the American population has declined more than 75 percent. A 1985 EPA study estimated that as many as 5,000 Americans died annually from lead-related heart disease prior to the country's lead phaseout. According to a 1988 report to Congress on childhood lead poisoning in America by the government's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, one can estimate that the blood-lead levels of up to 2 million children were reduced every year to below toxic levels between 1970 and 1987 as leaded gasoline use was reduced. From that report and elsewhere, one can conservatively estimate that a total of about 68 million young children had toxic exposures to lead from gasoline from 1927 to 1987.

AN URGENT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSAULT NEEDING YOUR SUPPORT

While the media focuses on the tragic losses in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and related locations a major environmental issue is consistently ignored.  

HELP NEEDED AT BUNKER HILL SUPERFUND SITE

Please support ending the terrible conditions of the vulnerable people of the Silver Valley - including flora and fauna - and the efforts of SV Waterkeeper to bring an end to the toxic dump site where overflow runs into a wetland and the Coeur' d'Alene River and Lake, as well as downstream into the Spokane River, onward to the Pacific Ocean. 

The East Mission Flats repository is situated within yards of the oldest building in Idaho and is the National Historic site known as Cataldo Mission.

This is the epicenter of the nation's largest Superfund site, Bunker Hill.  Contamination (and re-contamination) is a daily experience and this spreads to a minimum of 500,000 people, and all wild life in the 1500 square mile site.

More information is available at www.silvervalleyaction.com, on Facebook and by following us on twitter @SilverVlyAction.  You may also sign our on-line petition which is also linked from the website.

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