Not immune from Toxic Waste......

Maps of New England's TOXIC sites are included below.

It would seem that few of us are immune. Check it out:

If you've already sent your message to the EPA - thank you! (You can help multiply your impact by posting this action alert on facebook or sharing this link:goo.gl/ie3REj.)

If not, please take 30 seconds to let the EPA know that communities with Superfund sites deserve quick, complete cleanups of the toxic waste in their neighborhood. Tom's counting on you!

Thanks,

Sylvia

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Stratford's story is almost too crazy to believe.

 

For nearly a century, right up until 1989, Raymark Industries manufactured asbestos brake linings for cars, trucks and trains at their factory in Stratford, Connecticut. The company dumped toxic waste from their factory around town, polluting soil and groundwater in the area with asbestos, lead, and other toxins. They even handed out their waste mixed with dirt for residents to use as soil for backyard gardens and for developers to use as "clean fill".

 

Now, almost twenty-five years after Raymark closed and the clean up began, the EPA's only "cleanup solution" is to dig up the toxic Raymark waste and dump it onto a lot in the middle of a residential neighborhood, yards from a children's playground and around the corner from an elementary school.

Tell the New England division of the EPA: Don't just dump Stratford's waste in a neighborhood. Do a real cleanup - one that puts the waste in a landfill equipped to handle this toxic threat.

Stratford, a nice, quiet suburb outside New York City on Connecticut's southwest coast, is one of the last places you'd expect a massive hazardous waste site. At least that's what Tom Smith, a father of two, thought when he moved his family to Stratford a decade ago.

Tom knew that creating a toxic waste dump in his neighborhood was wrong, so he and his neighbors joined together to form a community group: SaveStratford.org. We've worked with Tom and
SaveStratford to convince the EPA to abandon their toxic dump plan and agree to a fully funded cleanup that truly helps and protects the community.

Yet today, more than twenty toxic sites remain in town, with waste buried underneath businesses and parks right next to homes, near schools and next to the public beach.

Sadly, the EPA has dimissed all the cost-effective cleanup proposals put forth by the community and stuck to their plan to dump the waste in the middle of the neighborhood.

When a community is home to a toxic waste site, residents deserve a true cleanup: one that is fast and complete, protecting families' health. We believe that goal is best achieved when the EPA works with citizen groups, like Tom's, to come up with a truly complete cleanup plan.
Tell the EPA that Stratford deserves a real cleanup that puts families first.

Sincerely,

Sylvia Broude

Executive Director
Toxics Action Center

P.S. - Wondering if there's a toxic site near you? Check out our New England toxic maps and reports.