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E.N.O.U.G.H. |
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An Environmental Research and Focus Group |
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Welcome to enoughwaste.com |
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We came into being out of the common needs of the Niagara County community that surrounds the 7,500 acre L.O.O.W. The residents and workers have a right to know if they are safe from off site migration of harmful chemical substances and radionuclides. Previous environmental studies have concluded that there has been a migration. The Community LOOW Project, funded by over $210,000.00 of private and taxpayer money, reviews all previous studies and discovered many data gaps. More testing has been ordered by the E.P.A. Hopefully, funding will be found for mitigation of this site and the off site plumes that apparently exist. The expansion of the C.W.M. landfill (RMU 2), the only hazardous waste site in the Northeast United States, has been placed on hold until the D.E.C. implements a Statewide Hazardous Waste Siting Plan, originally ordered by the E.P.A. We feel that the application for a new landfill at the LOOW site should be denied since the E.P.A., D.E.C. and D.O.H. have determined that migration pathways do exist from wastes the LOOW site and are not being addressed. Along with several landfills, LOOW is host to a former Nike Missile Site, radioactive waste from the Manhattan project, waste from many Superfund cleanups and the Lew-Port High School. This community has an inequitable amount of solid and hazardous waste. It should be classified as an environmental injustice area and there should be a moratorium on any further dumping. Our group is sponsoring a petition drive to force a referendum; giving the people the liberty to say NO to more environmental injustice. E.N.O.U.G.H. opposes any plans throughout the entire Western New York area to dispose of more hazardous waste. E.N.O.U.G.H. offers this website to anybody that wants to learn more about LOOW. The information that our organization researches and posts will be maintained with hopes that it will spark more peoples interest and bring them into the fold; we encourage newcomers to join RRG - Residents for Responsible Government . RRG is the flagship community organization from the Lewiston-Porter area and continues to lead the way in opposing expansion of the hazardous waste operation by C.W.M., and the community concerns at N.F.S.S. Lori Caso is the C.W.M. public relations contact. Lori’s role at C.W.M. is, in our opinion, publicly disingenuous and misguided. She needs to become more educated regarding the dangers facing communities that surround hazardous waste sites; instead of only being concerned about corporate profits. C.W.M.’s community education program is based mostly on the junk science that waste disposal companies regularly espouse to the worried public. Remember what the E.P.A. has stated: “All landfills eventually leak”. Please join in and take action to strengthen this communities disapproval of what is going on in their beautiful Niagara County community. C.W.M. the only disposal site for commercial hazardous waste and also the site for accepting Federal superfund and brownfield cleanups all around the Northeast United States. Now we are faced with the final solution; what to do with all the radiological and hazardous waste being disposed of at C.W.M. and how to safeguard the communities health and wellbeing. How long does this waste remain hazardous ? Newer technologies must be implemented to ebb the production of hazardous wastes and their flow to sites like Chemical Waste Management. Expansion of this site should not be permitted. Enough is enough. People that live outside the LOOW community are also getting more involved over this issue because they care about the future of peoples health and wellbeing in all of Western New York; hoping to leave this area a better place than they found it. |
