Monday, September 14, 2015

The EPA is dumping a cancer-causing chemical into this NY creek

The EPA is dumping a cancer-causing chemical into this NY creek - Watchdog.org:
"According to the EPA, the solvent 1,4 dioxane is a carcinogen; however, for months the agency has been releasing the solvent into the Valatie Kill creek from the Dewey Loeffel Superfund site in upstate New York.
...The EPA has been releasing a cancer causing chemical into a New York creek for months, with little notice from the media.
Town of Nassau Supervisor David Fleming has asked the EPA repeatedly to stop discharging into the creek until studies are conducted demonstrating that the process is safe, but he tells Watchdog that no studies have been done.
...“The EPA has calculated an increased risk of cancer in humans when dioxane levels in drinking water reach .35 micrograms per liter.
Despite use of an activated carbon filtration system, EPA data show the Loeffel facility has been discharging liquid in which dioxane levels were measured around .30 micrograms per liter.
But that level, tested weekly…, has twice surged as high as 6.8 micrograms per liter...”

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