[CPEO-MEF] Rayon Park and Richmond Defense Depot (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rayon Park puts past problems behind it
Many now proud to live in neighborhood once troubled by septic tanks, 
chemicals

BY MEREDITH BONNY
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH (VA)
November 5, 2006

A lot can happen in five years. Just ask Lonnie and Pat McCoy.

...

The McCoys, who moved to Rayon Park in 1999, decided two years later 
that it was time for action. In 2001, the couple joined fellow residents 
Paul and Sue Patton and many others in requesting help from the 
Chesterfield Board of Supervisors.

"Our whole backyard was under water," Pat McCoy recalled. "It smelled 
like raw sewage. We were trying to make this a better place. We had a 
10-year-old daughter to raise."

Later, the McCoys learned that their neighbor, the Defense Supply Center 
Richmond, had been declared a Superfund site in 1987 and received 
federal funding for cleanup because toxic chemicals had been dumped into 
the ground for years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149191522329&path=!news&s=1045855934842
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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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