They were also eligible for relocation assistance; if their new house outside of Times Beach cost more than their settlement, the Superfund program would pay part of the difference. "What will happen to my kids in 10 years?". In September 1980, Gov. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 67115. She traveled the country to countless rodeos, barrel races, and team ropings, often with her husband and daughter by her side. They also had to spend several weeks working on the citys road crew. William Powell was St. Louis Magazine's senior editor from September 2012July 2016. "You'd tell people, 'it's got to be a chemical in the horse arena' and they'd look at you like you were nuts," she said. "What is going to happen to us next?" On the other side of the road, at 210 Strecker Rd., developer Larry Wurm of James Properties Inc. is proposing to build Wildwood Ridge, an 11-home development on 7.6 acres of land now owned by Jean Callahan. One of Copelands tasks was to help a waste hauler named Russell Bliss spread used motor oil on the unpaved streets, in an effort to control dust. It was in Illinois and it had a big fence around it. Its good to put a lot of thought into a process such as this, but when are we going to see some outcome? If I had Monsanto as a potential defendant, and had the evidence on them, I certainly would bring them in as a party. Former Driver's Testimony, Mr. Lambarth, who in 1971 hauled some of the dioxin sludge from the Verona chemical plant and later sprayed Mrs. Piatt's arena and two others, said Mr. Bliss had told him, in reference to the Verona plant, to ''forget that we picked that place up.''. A copy of the written request obtained by the RFT shows the agency inquiry is specifically focused on the disposal of hazardous wastes generated by Monsanto and the now-defunct Wagner Electric Co. Taylor and the environmental group have until the end of the week to provide the agency with the information or be fined $25,000 a day until they comply. Missouri's problem is different from New York's Love Canal, which Hooker Chemical used as a toxic dump for dioxin until it was discovered in 1978. When he resigned, Leistner became acting mayor. More than a decade later, erosion spread dioxin-laced fill dirt to a nearby subdivision and contaminated a creek. The chemical companies, he has always maintained, never told him exactly what he was hauling. One of her adult sons has since contracted a lupus-like disease, says Jordan. Former company officials said their warnings were ignored. 1 killed in shooting at Massachusetts house party, Heavy shelling in Kherson, Kharkiv destroys residences, Cuba postpones International Workers' Day parade over fuel shortages, Democrats, Republicans remain split on debt ceiling plan. He reported a litany of problems: Documents were lost; samples were mislabeled and switched; a chain of custody was not established. I saw people that lived in the community lose their jobs, their churches, their homes, health problems. That doesnt exist in this world. But it was not until Piatt's horses began dying and her daughter became ill that CDC toxicologists believed something was dreadfully wrong. Shea is being dismissed as an alarmist. In all, 265,000 tons of dirt from 27 locations would be burned. Taylors overarching complaint is that the EPAs focus was too narrow. You can move it, but you can't get rid of it. No. The news, on the other hand, broke on the 22nd of December, with no mention of any accident. Despite evidence of erosion, the EPAs investigation concluded that the fill area of the Callahan subsite was not contaminated (and) that the original objectives of the remedial action had either been achieved through natural processes, or were no longer considered necessary due to the preference expressed by the site owner., Aside from groundwater contamination, the most serious threat to human health posed by the contamination at the Callahan site was airborne migration, according to the EPA. Look at the record of decision. She took it to the dry cleaner, but the owners refused her business. Why were they in such a hurry to clean up the Callahan site? By 1982, the Missouri attorney generals office had entered negotiations with two other firms, American Can and GK Technologies. Besides giving the site a clean bill of health without any soil testing, the DNR ignored its own warnings signals. The EPA intends to cap that area with soil and sod to limit human exposure and soil erosion. Jerry Russell Bliss, Ballwin, MO (63011) - Spokeo As these families were being made their offers, they were taking the money and running, Leistner says. She lived there for a quarter century, until December 1982, at which point the town was thrown into what she calls the time of flood and dioxin. She has spent the past quarter century telling the Times Beach story. They wanted to paint, but she wouldnt let them, told them to go help somebody else. She contacted authorities, but their response came too slowly for her. The waste was the unwanted byproduct from manufacturing the antiseptic hexachlorophene. Slowly, the town grew. The highest measure of contamination found at McDonnell Park is 275 parts per billion (ppb). If the city approves their respective developments, Wurm and Byrne hope to avoid this legal pitfall by having buyers sign a disclosure form saying that they were told in advance of the lands history. It had been there for a decade without harming them. Survived by Gregory Russell (Melissa McGuire), Barbara Russell, many family members and countless Scapegoats seem to abound here. Feild, nevertheless, appears to have already arrived at a predetermined conclusion that those locations will be found to be free of any contamination. It was an overstatement, to be sure, but one rooted in factat least until the Great Depression. The waste oil salvagers list of clients included: Monsanto, Wagner Electric, Union Electric, Carter Carburetor, American Can and the now-defunct Lianco Container Corp., a can manufacturer jointly owned by Libby, McNeil and Libby and Anheuser- Busch Inc. Monsanto created dioxin as a waste byproduct in its chemical manufacturing processes and also exclusively made toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at its Krummrich plant in Sauget, Ill. until 1977. Remedial action is mandated by the EPA in a residential setting at one ppb or higher. Back in 1982, she called Bliss and asked him, point-blank, whether he had sprayed Times Beach with dioxin. A missing page, a missing date, a missing signature. Leistner has four children, three girls and a boy. Bliss has said publicity about his spreading of dioxin to Times Beach and other areas forced him to turn over his waste-hauling business to his son, Jerry. She was a wonderful friend, as evidenced by her many visitors. No one is testing them. The paper had purchased the land from a farmer and rebranded it as a resort, a place for doctors from St. Louis to relax or catch a few fish on the weekend. 20,000 cubic yards of soil contaminated with 2,3,7,8-TCDD. In this instance, however, because the highest level of dioxin is believed to be buried more than a foot deep, it has been deemed safe by the EPA. "Only if they said, 'Sid, next week you'll have cancer,' I might worry. Crammed into a single bungalow, he and his siblings slept on pallets. Eventually, one of the towns police officers, a 300-pound man nicknamed Tiny, whom Copeland remembers eating quite a few long johns from his parents shop, identified the culprits. On Aug. 7, Taylor asked the St. Louis County Council to assist TBAG by forming a task force to independently investigate possible hazardous waste sites that may have been overlooked in the past by the EPA and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR). In the past, Jerry has also been known as Jerry Russell Bliss and Jerry R Bliss. Both locations are suspected to have been contaminated by waste-oil operator Russell Bliss sometime in the early 1970s, according to the EPA. St. Louis, MO 63119 So do two of her granddaughters. Some folks arent sure its even there. According to a 1981 IEPA document, Piatt recalled that Bliss possibly obtained waste from Monsanto. The IEPA summary goes on to state: Judy Piatt has a diary and pictures of such activities, but will not release these to (EPA) Region VII on the advise of her attorney., But perhaps the most damning indictment comes from Bliss himself. He arrives wearing the uniform of politics: a blue suit, white shirt, tie, cuff links. These days, Bliss, whos in his late seventies, is still finding unique ways to make a buck. WebJERRY-RUSSELL BLISS, INC. is a Missouri Domestic Gen. Business - For-Profit filed on November 15, 1978. For information about the McDonnell Park and Lemar Drive dioxin sites, call Hattie Thomas, EPA Community Involvement Coordinator, at 1-800 223-0425. published in the Riverfront Times (St. Louis), Aug. 20, 1997. During the Depression, a lot of the people in the city moved into their homes in Times Beach to ride out the hard times, Leistner says. Mrs. Piatt was followed to the stand by Gary Lambarth, a former Bliss driver, who testified that he lied about hauling chemicals in a 1974 deposition because his former boss had told him ''to keep my memory fuzzy about things like that. Leistner recalls meeting a woman the day that the EPA came to announce the buyout. The missive from Martha Steincamp, the EPA regional counsel, instructed Taylor and other members of the Times Beach Action Group (TBAG) to turn over any information they may have concerning potential hazardous waste sites in the St. Louis area. Contacted by phone last Friday at EPA headquarters in Kansas City, Martha Steincamp, regional counsel for the EPA, could not provide details on the Bliss-Ellisville cleanups and referred all questions on the matter to Bob Feild, the agencys project manager. I remember this old guy he used to give us stuff. It was during this period that Bliss was trucking some of the sludge to his own storage tanks where he mixed it with waste oil and sold it for dust control. Shipping the waste to Coffeyville would have been prohibitively expensive even if it had remained an option, according to one local official. This is where you find it, though.. She is survived by her devoted husband of 36 years, Jerry Bliss; her loving daughter, Hannah Bliss; her siblings, Paula Wohldmann, Steve Hyink, Carrie Hyink, and Mary Rust; her father-in-law, Russell Bliss; and her brother-in-law, Cash Bliss. Once we receive the public comment then well be in the position to move forward with remedy selection.
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