2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:04:45 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Marantha Faith Center, Columbus, Mississippi
 
Church pastor asks city to investigate soil contamination


Neal Wagner
Columbus Commercial Dispatch (MS)
August 5, 2009


Columbus officials during the next few weeks will consider working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine if a black substance discovered near a local church is a toxic industrial byproduct.

The announcement came after the Rev. Steve Jamison, pastor of the Marantha Faith Center on Waterworks Road, spoke with the Columbus City Council during a Tuesday night meeting.

During the meeting, Jamison and Tennie White, president of the Troubleshooters consultant company in Jackson, requested the city ask the EPA to thoroughly investigate the area around the church for creosote contamination.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=2407

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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