Our Road: Then -- E 20: Aggravated Citizens Meet With EPA Part 2

In this episode, the meeting with Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCBs delegates  and  EPA Office of Toxic Substances officials continues.  Delegates discuss EPA’s hazardous waste disposal regulations and express their skepticism.

They have every reason to believe that Warren County’s future is in peril. Their groundwater is at best about seven feet deep, and now the EPA is going to permit hazardous landfills to be built five feet from groundwater, even closer. The impossible claim is that new, state-of-the-art landfills will have zero percent discharge.

Citizens don’t buy the concept, and Wallace Neal, a contractor who has much experience with excavating soil for roads and industrial infrastructure, is really aggravated. They describe the strange roadside PCB dumpings; the temporary PCB dump in Warren County; the local and state attempt to build a 500-acre multi-state hazardous waste landfill in Warren County, owned and operated by Chemical Waste Management, and their suspicions lead them to speculate if the PCBs were spewed along the roadsides in the fourteen counties in order to leverage a dump in Warren County.