Our Road: Then -- E19: 50 - 5' -- Honest Science for the People is a Threat to the State

In this episode, a delegation of Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCBs meets with EPA officials to find out if the rumor is true that the EPA is going to drop the 50 foot required distance between the bottom of a toxic waste landfill to only 5 feet. They learn that the agency does plan to drop this regulation, and they learn much more.

Throughout the meeting, delegates express their skepticism and distrust of the EPA’s toxic waste disposal landfill design. They can see that the EPA is really marketing a landfill concept that will become in reality a rationale for selective human sacrifice.

Wallace Neal, the foreman of John Tom Harris’s construction company, cuts through the EPA officials’ discussion on why they thought dropping the 50 foot standard to 5 feet would be safe because the engineering design of the landfill would make up for the closeness of the bottom of the landfill to groundwater. 

With down-home, disarming and brilliant insights, Wallace addresses a fundamental question the EPA officials don’t attempt to answer. 
If the landfill is designed for zero percent discharge, why are landfills not located where the waste is produced?

Wallace: “What difference does it make if you’re gonna fix it where you got zero?… It doesn’t make any difference. You can put it in your back yard if that’s the case. What difference is there putting it where they make it, even if there are lots of people if your going to fix it like Matt (the EPA official) said?"