STOP TOXIC DUMPING IN IDAHO'S SILVER VALLEY
Target:
Supporters of Environmental Justice
Sponsored by:
Mission Repository Petition Information
"Who is going to be accountable if my children and grandchildren become lead poisoned?" Carla Madsen Bassemier, Cataldo, Idaho resident, upon finding out about the Old Mission Repository, Nov. 2007.
Early on the morning of April 21, 2007 the families living near and in the nations largest lead Superfund site picked up the Spokesman Review and read for the first time that a toxic waste dump was going to be established by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (IDEQ) at the Old Mission at Cataldo. These same families, citizens and groups could not believe what they were reading. For the next several weeks The Silver Valley Community Resource Center (SVCRC) did their best to find out what was happening. Ed Moreen, EPA official for the Bunker Hill/CDA Basin site, was telling anyone who asked that the site was supported by "everyone", including the Coeur d'Alene Tribe whose ancestors built the Sacred Heart Mission with Jesuit priests and established a reservation on the proposed toxic repository in the late 1800's.
Today the Mission is one of the few designated National Historic Landmarks in the State of Idaho. It sits on a hill purposely so to avoid the flooding that has gone on in the area every year since 1848 when construction of the old church began. It is also where EPA and IDEQ want to build a 60 ft., 600,000 cubic yard, and 19 acre (to begin with) toxic waste repository. In information acquired by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, many now know these two agencies deceived certain individuals in the downstream areas, including the towns of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington, by telling them the site would only be 16 ft. tall and would be located at least 3 miles from the Mission. EPA and IDEQ continue to deceive certain individuals that there is a moratorium of the site when all the while they continue to develop the site in preparation for years and years of dumping. In the same information request both agencies acknowledge the existence of annual flooding! and have no provided no evidence that the repository will have a lining. The agencies claim that a liner would not be any improvement for health and safety because "the liner will float", leading to greater leaching of deadly lead and other toxic mine waste, to be washed out and travel downstream to area rivers and Coeur d'Alene Lake.
In June, 2007 as a result of the public learning about this project, and opposing the intended repository, EPA and IDEQ released a report for public comment. In less than a week more than 500 people had signed a petition opposing the site. The deadline for the comments was July 6, 2007. On June 25 the two agencies began digging up the site, ten days before the public comment period was to end.
In July 2007, Rick Eichstaedt, an attorney from the Center for Justice representing the Sierra Club, asked: "Why do you offer something up for public comment if you're going to start it anyway?%u201D
In September, 1998 at the closure of extensive work by Dr. Joel Hirschhorn, Technical Advisor for the SVCRC, a letter was written to Chuck Clarke, and EPA administrator at the time, stating, "the citizens of the Silver Valley did not want any more dumping of any kind of waste by anyone ever again in our community!" Since that time the Smelterville, Idaho toxic waste repository continues to be utilized, the Central Impoundment Area in Kellogg, Idaho, is filled with millions of tons of toxic waste and covered over, and at the Big Creek area right off of the I-90 freeway east of Kellogg one will find another 40-50 ft. tall toxic repository.
"The government is trying to cramp this down our throats," says Jeanie Smith a local resident long involved with the cleanup of the nation%u2019s largest Superfund site.
Presently SVCRC has requested the involvement of the EPA Inspector General's office in order to conduct a review regarding "the appropriate public participation" process for the site.
(See IG's report at www.silvervalleyaction.com)
"Gone are the days when the special interests and agency representatives could get away with this type of disregard, deception and intimidation", Barbara Miller, Director SVCRC.
We invite anyone who believes a toxic waste dump at the Old Mission at Cataldo, or elsewhere in the Silver Valley, is not a good idea to sign our petition.
Please feel free to contact our office for any additional questions or comments you may have.
Financial contributions are needed and welcome to support our work, including a Lead Health Screening and Treatment Program. SVCRC is a 501 c3 tax-exempt and non-profit organization working for environmental justice in the Silver Valley since 1986.
"Who is going to be accountable if my children and grandchildren become lead poisoned?" Carla Madsen Bassemier, Cataldo, Idaho resident, upon finding out about the Old Mission Repository, Nov. 2007.
Early on the morning of April 21, 2007 the families living near and in the nations largest lead Superfund site picked up the Spokesman Review and read for the first time that a toxic waste dump was going to be established by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (IDEQ) at the Old Mission at Cataldo. These same families, citizens and groups could not believe what they were reading. For the next several weeks The Silver Valley Community Resource Center (SVCRC) did their best to find out what was happening. Ed Moreen, EPA official for the Bunker Hill/CDA Basin site, was telling anyone who asked that the site was supported by "everyone", including the Coeur d'Alene Tribe whose ancestors built the Sacred Heart Mission with Jesuit priests and established a reservation on the proposed toxic repository in the late 1800's.
Today the Mission is one of the few designated National Historic Landmarks in the State of Idaho. It sits on a hill purposely so to avoid the flooding that has gone on in the area every year since 1848 when construction of the old church began. It is also where EPA and IDEQ want to build a 60 ft., 600,000 cubic yard, and 19 acre (to begin with) toxic waste repository. In information acquired by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, many now know these two agencies deceived certain individuals in the downstream areas, including the towns of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington, by telling them the site would only be 16 ft. tall and would be located at least 3 miles from the Mission. EPA and IDEQ continue to deceive certain individuals that there is a moratorium of the site when all the while they continue to develop the site in preparation for years and years of dumping. In the same information request both agencies acknowledge the existence of annual flooding! and have no provided no evidence that the repository will have a lining. The agencies claim that a liner would not be any improvement for health and safety because "the liner will float", leading to greater leaching of deadly lead and other toxic mine waste, to be washed out and travel downstream to area rivers and Coeur d'Alene Lake.
In June, 2007 as a result of the public learning about this project, and opposing the intended repository, EPA and IDEQ released a report for public comment. In less than a week more than 500 people had signed a petition opposing the site. The deadline for the comments was July 6, 2007. On June 25 the two agencies began digging up the site, ten days before the public comment period was to end.
In July 2007, Rick Eichstaedt, an attorney from the Center for Justice representing the Sierra Club, asked: "Why do you offer something up for public comment if you're going to start it anyway?%u201D
In September, 1998 at the closure of extensive work by Dr. Joel Hirschhorn, Technical Advisor for the SVCRC, a letter was written to Chuck Clarke, and EPA administrator at the time, stating, "the citizens of the Silver Valley did not want any more dumping of any kind of waste by anyone ever again in our community!" Since that time the Smelterville, Idaho toxic waste repository continues to be utilized, the Central Impoundment Area in Kellogg, Idaho, is filled with millions of tons of toxic waste and covered over, and at the Big Creek area right off of the I-90 freeway east of Kellogg one will find another 40-50 ft. tall toxic repository.
"The government is trying to cramp this down our throats," says Jeanie Smith a local resident long involved with the cleanup of the nation%u2019s largest Superfund site.
Presently SVCRC has requested the involvement of the EPA Inspector General's office in order to conduct a review regarding "the appropriate public participation" process for the site.
(See IG's report at www.silvervalleyaction.com)
"Gone are the days when the special interests and agency representatives could get away with this type of disregard, deception and intimidation", Barbara Miller, Director SVCRC.
We invite anyone who believes a toxic waste dump at the Old Mission at Cataldo, or elsewhere in the Silver Valley, is not a good idea to sign our petition.
Please feel free to contact our office for any additional questions or comments you may have.
Financial contributions are needed and welcome to support our work, including a Lead Health Screening and Treatment Program. SVCRC is a 501 c3 tax-exempt and non-profit organization working for environmental justice in the Silver Valley since 1986.
Mission Repository Petition Information
"Who is going to be accountable if my children and grandchildren become lead poisoned?" Carla Madsen Bassemier, Cataldo, Idaho resident, upon finding out about the Old Mission Repository, Nov. 2007.
Early on the morning of April 21, 2007 the families living near and in the nations largest lead Superfund site picked up the Spokesman Review and read for the first time that a toxic waste dump was going to be established by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (IDEQ) at the Old Mission at Cataldo. These same families, citizens and groups could not believe what they were reading. For the next several weeks The Silver Valley Community Resource Center (SVCRC) did their best to find out what was happening. Ed Moreen, EPA official for the Bunker Hill/CDA Basin site, was telling anyone who asked that the site was supported by "everyone", including the Coeur d'Alene Tribe whose ancestors built the Sacred Heart Mission with Jesuit priests and established a reservation on the proposed toxic repository in the late 1800's.
Today the Mission is one of the few designated National Historic Landmarks in the State of Idaho. It sits on a hill purposely so to avoid the flooding that has gone on in the area every year since 1848 when construction of the old church began. It is also where EPA and IDEQ want to build a 60 ft., 600,000 cubic yard, and 19 acre (to begin with) toxic waste repository. In information acquired by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, many now know these two agencies deceived certain individuals in the downstream areas, including the towns of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington, by telling them the site would only be 16 ft. tall and would be located at least 3 miles from the Mission. EPA and IDEQ continue to deceive certain individuals that there is a moratorium of the site when all the while they continue to develop the site in preparation for years and years of dumping. In the same information request both agencies acknowledge the existence of annual flooding! and have no provided no evidence that the repository will have a lining. The agencies claim that a liner would not be any improvement for health and safety because "the liner will float", leading to greater leaching of deadly lead and other toxic mine waste, to be washed out and travel downstream to area rivers and Coeur d'Alene Lake.
In June, 2007 as a result of the public learning about this project, and opposing the intended repository, EPA and IDEQ released a report for public comment. In less than a week more than 500 people had signed a petition opposing the site. The deadline for the comments was July 6, 2007. On June 25 the two agencies began digging up the site, ten days before the public comment period was to end.
In July 2007, Rick Eichstaedt, an attorney from the Center for Justice representing the Sierra Club, asked: "Why do you offer something up for public comment if you're going to start it anyway?%u201D
In September, 1998 at the closure of extensive work by Dr. Joel Hirschhorn, Technical Advisor for the SVCRC, a letter was written to Chuck Clarke, and EPA administrator at the time, stating, "the citizens of the Silver Valley did not want any more dumping of any kind of waste by anyone ever again in our community!" Since that time the Smelterville, Idaho toxic waste repository continues to be utilized, the Central Impoundment Area in Kellogg, Idaho, is filled with millions of tons of toxic waste and covered over, and at the Big Creek area right off of the I-90 freeway east of Kellogg one will find another 40-50 ft. tall toxic repository.
"The government is trying to cramp this down our throats," says Jeanie Smith a local resident long involved with the cleanup of the nation%u2019s largest Superfund site.
Presently SVCRC has requested the involvement of the EPA Inspector General's office in order to conduct a review regarding "the appropriate public participation" process for the site.
(See IG's report at www.silvervalleyaction.com)
"Gone are the days when the special interests and agency representatives could get away with this type of disregard, deception and intimidation", Barbara Miller, Director SVCRC.
We invite anyone who believes a toxic waste dump at the Old Mission at Cataldo, or elsewhere in the Silver Valley, is not a good idea to sign our petition.
Please feel free to contact our office for any additional questions or comments you may have.
Financial contributions are needed and welcome to support our work, including a Lead Health Screening and Treatment Program. SVCRC is a 501 c3 tax-exempt and non-profit organization working for environmental justice in the Silver Valley since 1986.
"Who is going to be accountable if my children and grandchildren become lead poisoned?" Carla Madsen Bassemier, Cataldo, Idaho resident, upon finding out about the Old Mission Repository, Nov. 2007.
Early on the morning of April 21, 2007 the families living near and in the nations largest lead Superfund site picked up the Spokesman Review and read for the first time that a toxic waste dump was going to be established by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (IDEQ) at the Old Mission at Cataldo. These same families, citizens and groups could not believe what they were reading. For the next several weeks The Silver Valley Community Resource Center (SVCRC) did their best to find out what was happening. Ed Moreen, EPA official for the Bunker Hill/CDA Basin site, was telling anyone who asked that the site was supported by "everyone", including the Coeur d'Alene Tribe whose ancestors built the Sacred Heart Mission with Jesuit priests and established a reservation on the proposed toxic repository in the late 1800's.
Today the Mission is one of the few designated National Historic Landmarks in the State of Idaho. It sits on a hill purposely so to avoid the flooding that has gone on in the area every year since 1848 when construction of the old church began. It is also where EPA and IDEQ want to build a 60 ft., 600,000 cubic yard, and 19 acre (to begin with) toxic waste repository. In information acquired by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, many now know these two agencies deceived certain individuals in the downstream areas, including the towns of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington, by telling them the site would only be 16 ft. tall and would be located at least 3 miles from the Mission. EPA and IDEQ continue to deceive certain individuals that there is a moratorium of the site when all the while they continue to develop the site in preparation for years and years of dumping. In the same information request both agencies acknowledge the existence of annual flooding! and have no provided no evidence that the repository will have a lining. The agencies claim that a liner would not be any improvement for health and safety because "the liner will float", leading to greater leaching of deadly lead and other toxic mine waste, to be washed out and travel downstream to area rivers and Coeur d'Alene Lake.
In June, 2007 as a result of the public learning about this project, and opposing the intended repository, EPA and IDEQ released a report for public comment. In less than a week more than 500 people had signed a petition opposing the site. The deadline for the comments was July 6, 2007. On June 25 the two agencies began digging up the site, ten days before the public comment period was to end.
In July 2007, Rick Eichstaedt, an attorney from the Center for Justice representing the Sierra Club, asked: "Why do you offer something up for public comment if you're going to start it anyway?%u201D
In September, 1998 at the closure of extensive work by Dr. Joel Hirschhorn, Technical Advisor for the SVCRC, a letter was written to Chuck Clarke, and EPA administrator at the time, stating, "the citizens of the Silver Valley did not want any more dumping of any kind of waste by anyone ever again in our community!" Since that time the Smelterville, Idaho toxic waste repository continues to be utilized, the Central Impoundment Area in Kellogg, Idaho, is filled with millions of tons of toxic waste and covered over, and at the Big Creek area right off of the I-90 freeway east of Kellogg one will find another 40-50 ft. tall toxic repository.
"The government is trying to cramp this down our throats," says Jeanie Smith a local resident long involved with the cleanup of the nation%u2019s largest Superfund site.
Presently SVCRC has requested the involvement of the EPA Inspector General's office in order to conduct a review regarding "the appropriate public participation" process for the site.
(See IG's report at www.silvervalleyaction.com)
"Gone are the days when the special interests and agency representatives could get away with this type of disregard, deception and intimidation", Barbara Miller, Director SVCRC.
We invite anyone who believes a toxic waste dump at the Old Mission at Cataldo, or elsewhere in the Silver Valley, is not a good idea to sign our petition.
Please feel free to contact our office for any additional questions or comments you may have.
Financial contributions are needed and welcome to support our work, including a Lead Health Screening and Treatment Program. SVCRC is a 501 c3 tax-exempt and non-profit organization working for environmental justice in the Silver Valley since 1986.
We signed the "STOP TOXIC DUMPING IN IDAHO'S SILVER VALLEY" petition!
# 49:
12:44 pm PST, Nov 14,
Name not displayed, Washington
# 48:
5:38 am PDT, Oct 31,
Helle Collin, Denmark
# 47:
8:55 am PDT, Oct 4,
Nadia Davidovich, Argentina
KEEP OUR PLANET ALIVE!!!!!!! Please sign my petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/clean-the-streams THANK YOU!!!!!!!
KEEP OUR PLANET ALIVE!!!!!!! Please sign my petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/clean-the-streams THANK YOU!!!!!!!
# 46:
8:34 pm PDT, Sep 30,
Glenn Brown, Nebraska
# 45:
5:24 pm PDT, Sep 20,
Clover Robison, California
I have been to the mission recently and to put a toxic wast dump there would be a crime. Idaho is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited and I would like to move there, but because of this lead waste I am rethinking. Idaho is loosing potential residence by agreeing to this. Leave the state of Idaho beautiful and pure.
I have been to the mission recently and to put a toxic wast dump there would be a crime. Idaho is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited and I would like to move there, but because of this lead waste I am rethinking. Idaho is loosing potential residence by agreeing to this. Leave the state of Idaho beautiful and pure.
# 44:
5:54 am PDT, Jul 26,
Octavian Paul Draja, Romania
# 43:
7:03 am PDT, Jul 25,
Sylwia Podgórska, Poland
# 42:
7:08 pm PDT, Jul 2,
Steve Dale, Australia
# 41:
8:48 am PDT, Jul 1,
Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin
# 40:
1:21 am PDT, Jul 1,
Razvan V., Romania
# 39:
7:48 am PDT, Jun 30,
L Waldron, Florida
# 38:
12:38 pm PDT, Jun 29,
Name not displayed, New York
I am signing this petition because I genuinely believe the resource center knows what's best for the ecosystem in their Silver Valley, ID.
I am signing this petition because I genuinely believe the resource center knows what's best for the ecosystem in their Silver Valley, ID.
# 37:
1:06 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Lynn Barnes, Michigan
# 36:
1:08 pm PDT, Jun 23,
Daile O'Connor, New Jersey
# 35:
8:30 am PDT, Jun 23,
Jacqueline Robinson, Georgia
# 34:
12:06 am PDT, Jun 23,
Pam Boland, Georgia
# 33:
6:50 am PDT, Jun 22,
Kenneth Lapointe, Canada
# 32:
7:50 am PDT, Jun 21,
Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 31:
4:06 am PDT, Jun 20,
Denisszia Gerocz, Romania
# 29:
12:16 am PDT, Jun 18,
Jessica Murray, Australia
# 28:
11:15 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Amanda Taylor, Florida
# 27:
6:08 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 26:
1:56 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Mervi Rantala, Finland
# 24:
1:54 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 23:
1:44 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Amy Schumacher, Ohio
# 22:
12:48 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Becky Visco, Texas
# 21:
12:30 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Beverly Dixon, Pennsylvania
Send your comments to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson in support of the 2000 people who have already said NO to more contamination in the Silver Valley and DOWNSTREAM.
Send your comments to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson in support of the 2000 people who have already said NO to more contamination in the Silver Valley and DOWNSTREAM.
Did you know that Region X EPA ignores Inspector General's recommendations that historic mission repository is inappropriate?
# 20:
10:55 am PDT, Jun 17,
Dinda Evans, California
# 19:
10:25 am PDT, Jun 17,
Nate Watson, Massachusetts
# 18:
9:46 am PDT, Jun 17,
Name not displayed, Illinois
# 17:
5:29 am PDT, Jun 17,
Tonya Erpelding, Michigan
# 16:
4:48 am PDT, Jun 17,
David N Moore, Connecticut
# 15:
4:19 am PDT, Jun 17,
Bill C, Germany
# 14:
3:45 am PDT, Jun 17,
Bertil Saukkoriipi, Sweden
# 13:
2:20 am PDT, Jun 17,
Filomena Lomba Viana, United Kingdom
# 12:
1:40 am PDT, Jun 17,
Melissa Johnson, Illinois
# 11:
1:29 am PDT, Jun 17,
Izabela Kaszuba, Poland
# 10:
1:27 am PDT, Jun 17,
Joanna Renda, Poland
# 9:
1:22 am PDT, Jun 17,
Radoslaw Renda, Poland
# 8:
1:20 am PDT, Jun 17,
Slawomir Renda, Poland
# 7:
1:15 am PDT, Jun 17,
Paulina Zukowska, Poland
# 6:
5:55 am PDT, Jun 16,
Catherine Gaspard, Belgium
# 5:
3:19 am PDT, Jun 16,
Julie Jamieson, United Kingdom
# 4:
2:40 am PDT, Jun 16,
Gail Dair, Australia
# 3:
7:51 pm PDT, Jun 15,
Barbara Ganschow, Nevada
# 2:
7:04 pm PDT, Jun 15,
Jamie Lee, California
# 1:
5:08 pm PDT, Jun 15,
He Yo, Idaho
- View Signatures:
- |<
- <
- 49
- >
- >|
