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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Help Design El Paso

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  1. Jim TolbertJune 3, 2010 at 3:54 PM

    In an email to the President of the Coronado Neighborhood Association, activist and environmental and engineering PhD candidate, Mariana Chew, offered the following points why much more needs to be considered about ASARCO before there can be any consideration of development design. I have edited what she wrote:

    It [the ASARCO project] is only a partial clean up of the on site property: half the on site, around 400 acres only. The other half ON SITE ASARCO property was sold before the TCEQ Trustee got into this.

    It is not an off site clean up. Nothing that is within HALF of the ASARCO on site will be cleaned up. Not only will the clean up not happen but there won't even be an environmental assessment

    It is partial in the sense that not all the pollutants released by ASARCO are taken in account for the clean up.

    It can only be used for INDUSTRIAL USE not for commercial or any other use.

    Even the term "INDUSTRIAL USE" may not be the proper term due to the "partial" component in all this.

    The main component of the contamination in our region, which is the illegal burning of hazardous waste for more than ten years, is not even mentioned.

    Knowing all of this, the City of El Paso is wasting our time and money.

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  2. AnonymousJune 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM

    So the conclusion is don't participate? The Council is bringing in opportunities that are well established in other cities and locals are going to shoot it down? Why? Too discouraged, no hope, just want to complain? No constructive comments at all? No wonder I don't bother reading this stuff most of the time.

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