[Occupymendocino] Toxic Mill Pond- (from Laurie York)

[Richard Karch]

Dear Community,
Please take a few minutes and write Tom Lanphar Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov> <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>> (CA Dept. of Toxic Substances Control) as I and many others have done.  We need to send a minimum of 500 emails to Tom in the next 13 days - or we will lose our chance to have the GP pond cleaned of toxic dioxins.  Here’s my letter followed by Michael Comolino’s letter.  Michael worked at the GP mill and understands the seriousness of this local problem.  

Please join us and write a short email to Tom Lanphar today.
Thanks,
Laurie

Dear Tom Lanphar,

I join the coastal community in insisting that the GP mill pond be cleaned.  When I see beautiful wildlife such as Canadian Geese, ducks and water fowl swimming in and drinking from the toxic pool of dioxins left behind by GP I’m angry that this problem has not been corrected by now.  Tourists and residents walk the coastal trail and little do they know these extremely hazardous dioxins fill the nearby pond.  Please see to it that the pond is cleaned and the toxins are removed.  This is GP’s responsibility and should not be left as a burden on Fort Bragg in the heart of our coastal town.  The currently toxic pond tarnishes our reputation as an environmentally conscious community and is a liability to our tourism, the health of coastal residents and our wildlife.

Thank you,
Laurie York 
37 Year Coastal Resident


By City Councilman Michael Cimolino. He worked for the mill from 1982-1985. He knows about the toxins in pond 8.

To everyone who cares about Fort Bragg, I need your help! I haven't used social media to influence peoples' minds but this is very important to our future. Imagine a 6 foot fence around the large mill pond with DANGER signs greeting us and the tourist with the potential dangers of that area. Not good for the health and vision of our town. I need 500 letters and hope for a thousand.

This is really important. For the prosperity of Fort Bragg and the entire North Coast, we have to make our voices heard. We have to tell Tom Lanphar and DTSC “We don’t accept that.” Clean up is what is needed not status quo.

Please send an e-mail to Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov> <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov <mailto:Tom.Lanphar at dtsc.ca.gov>> about cleaning up the mill pond. We all know what a mess that thing is, but the one option Georgia-Pacific just wants is to leave it and walk away. Leave us holding the bag, Dioxin for all of us. That’s a bad deal.

It is really important that we don’t just send in dozens of identical e-mails. They will just be grouped together and it will read 20 people said, “bla,bla . . .”

We each need to say, in our own way, “I do not accept the idea of leaving the mill pond as is.” or possibly, “Community acceptance of this terrible G-P plan is out of the question.”

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World Health Organization article on dioxins - what they are and why we should be concerned:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/ <http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/> <http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/ <http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/>>
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