Uniontown IEL 2016 FIVE YEAR REVIEW BY REGION 5 US EPA
US EPA Region 5
Uniontown IEL Project Manager –
Ms. Karen Cibulski
Chicago, Illinois .
Re: Region 5’s Uniontown IEL Superfund Site’s “2016 5 Year Review : Citizens’ Plea for Scientific Accountability by EPA Adhering to What is Considered “Best Available Science” – (by Following its own Guidelines )
As part of US EPA Region 5’s 2016 Uniontown Industrial Excess Landfill Superfund Site “Five Year Review” required, citizens formally request that US EPA Region 5 use this opportunity to correct past serious mistakes made at IEL, so grave that these mistakes, many believe, led to fatally flawed clean up decisions being made – the killing off of the various basic institutional controls /clean up components one by one – measures that Region 5 had vehemently once promised this town would be carried out to insure that toxins would remain “isolated” in perpetuity… Due to what appeared to citizens/ many elected officials to be immense political pressure/arm twisting (and worse – see Dr. Toby Clark’s follow up Clean Sites report done for US EPA on IEL for US EPA) – , today, all that remains of the so called “clean up” is the continued flushing of the site into our area’s aquifer, a toxic dump that, according to Ohio EPA, contains “greater than 780,000 tons of hazardous substances“, perched just above our area’s water supply.
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