[CPEO-BIF] discrimination at TCE site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Racial discrimination amendment could be tagged to lawsuit

By Patricia Lynch Kimbro
Dickson Herald
November 24, 2004

CHARLOTTE - Dickson County Circuit Court Judge George Sexton said an
attorney for an African-American family could add a racial
discrimination amendment to their lawsuit involving the alleged toxic
poisoning of their well water near the Dickson County Landfill.

"It was a day of victory," said Shelia Holt, 43, a breast cancer victim
whose family has been besieged with cancer and other health problems
which they claim in lawsuits was caused by the illegal dumping of the
cancer causing agent trichloroethylene or TCE by a now defunct tire
valve plant that operated in the county on Tennsco Drive from 1964 to 1985.

...

Johnson told the judge that nine white families in the area were
notified within 48 hours of that determination that the toxic chemical
was present in their water.

However, it would be at least another nine years later before the Holt
family was given the same information. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dicksonherald.com/news/stories/20041124/holtlawsuit.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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