[CPEO-BIF] Kerr-McGee creosote in Navassa, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents of contaminated town wary of government efforts

by MARTHA WAGGONER
Associated Press
October 10,2015


NAVASSA, N.C. (AP) -- In the little town of Navassa, work has always been hard and dirty.

>From antebellum rice plantations to Jim Crow-era fertilizer factories and more recently, a massive wood treatment plant, the community in the Gullah-Geechee corridor of coastal North Carolina has yielded the natural resources and back-breaking labor to make money for owners and corporations.

But the wood treatment plant left behind a poisonous legacy - creosote that soaked deep into the soil.

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For the entire article, see
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RESTORING_A_TOWN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-10-13-04-59

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