Environmental Officials to Met With Picayune Residents Regarding Wood Treating Plant
Posted on: Monday, 1 May 2006, 18:00 CDT
By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.
May 01--PICAYUNE -- Federal and state environmental officials want to meet one-on-one with residents this week to discuss the clean up here of a defunct wood treating plant.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state Department of Environmental Quality and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry plan to meet with neighborhood residents Thursday about cleaning efforts near an abandoned wood treating plant on Davis Street.
Before closing in 1999, the plant operated on Davis Street for nearly a century, and the creosote used over the years seeped into the ground, according to environmental officials.
In January, the ATSDR released a report saying children and adolescents who live near the site could be at "an increased risk for developmental and reproductive effects from exposure to dioxins."
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Source: The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.)
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