| 2.) LANDFILLS
- In Spring of 2001 Meredith Environmental Inc. applied for a
permit for a C & D landfill in the Village Creek
watershed. This proposed landfill will be placed on
abandoned mining operations. The Village Creek Society and
many citizens in the watershed are adamantly opposed to this
landfill because of the possibility of numerous toxins leaking
into the watershed.
3.) DURSBAN - In
October of 1997 a chemical warehouse storing the now illegal
Dursban pesticide caught fire releasing thousands of gallons of
the toxic chemical. The warehouse contained more than 4,000
gallons of the concentrated Dursban pesticide. One week
after the fire Dusrban concentration levels were about six parts
per billion in our creek. In Bayview Lake alone over 78,000
fish, predominately game fish such as bass and crappie, were
killed. |
