Toxic Pawtucket Messageboard

Sent by Lon Address: Email: Since I last updated you there has been changes. The Gas co has been sold to National Grid with runs the Electric Utility also. The clean -up of the property has been ongoing. New razor wire fence surrounds the facility at Tidewater and the landscape has been altered so the former problems are hard to imagine. From the many covered trucks leaving the facility over the past years I would say that the Gas Co, has gone a ways to making the property usable. As a neighbor concerned with the clean-up of a dangerous situation I am fairly satisfied. Legal battles will continue around the mercury spill and the change of ownership seems to muddy the waters. Yet hopefully City Planners will get together the gas company to make the best use of this property.
Sent by Jessica Address: Email: deaubilo25 Hello I was curious to get a update of the mercury spill in Pawtucket. I used to live on the corner of Taft and Spencer. I moved about a month after the scene broke out, though it is just a coincidence, I came to PA. Very homesick for RI ;O(
Sent by Jessica Address: Email: deaubilo25@yahoo.com Hello, I moved to PA about a month after all this took place. I lived the corner of Taft and Spencer. What is the status of the mercury at this time, is it all resolved? Also, it was only a coincidence that I moved at that time. Frankly I miss RI ;O(
Sent by Lon Address: Email: no_email Do feel free to share my commentary with others. Helps in quality of review as well, to have any number of bright minds working on the concepts. Dumping of "box" wastes is a serious matter. I cost Wisconsin Electric Power Company $105 million when aired in court back about 1999.
Sent by Lon Address: Email: no_email More--I now see the proximity of your home and the children's school, to the former gas plant.... As I understand it, the school and your home are still slightly topographically up-hill from the gas works site. That is good news, for it severely limits the potential for subsurface migration of gasyard toxics. The question of dumped wastes, however, remains.... Since none of the homes in the area are large in floor plan, the next question is when were they built, in terms of the life of this gas works? The large lots and smaller nature of the homes speaks to me that the ground below your place and the school could once have been a gas works dumping ground. I don't mean to drive fright to you, but, after all, we are operating on multiple working hypotheses. The fact that your property is "up-hill" from the works limits the potential for subsurface transport of gasyard toxics, but not for wagon loads of purifier box wastes and other residuals and wastes to have been dumped prior to development of the land for residences... If you can, in the coming future, make an impression with the State folks, you might want to move toward having them make push probes into the ground at your place and the school, and as many other locations where access is possible (if not, then between the sidewalk and the street curbs) and to sniff for traces of PAH emissions (fumes).
Sent by Lon Address: Email: no_email Here are some parts from the correspondence I am having Dr. Hatheway-- The story you have been given by EPA II sounds appropriate to their interests, as EPA began to back off enforcement of FMGPs in the first Clinton adminstration and to hand that task to the States, for their pursuit (with EPA funding) at their own pace and determination... As for the fence limiting the transport of toxics, I never subscribe to that notion, on two counts: 1) We don't know what and where gas works residuals and wastes were discharged before the fence went up. 2) And, as a geological engineer, I can assure you that water solubilizes and suspends gas works toxics and that such water moves down hill in the subsurface! ....Rolla, Thanksgiving, 2004: Lon: I am virtually certain that all of the shoreline, shown in these map images, has been constructed out of dumped debris and that the original (pre-gas works) shoreline extends even further inland. All of this ground, at this point, is suspect to me, of being contaminated with gas works residuals and wastes, and therefore potentially of danger to all exposed parties. I would ask you to do an internet search for the gas works at Ashland, Wisconsin, which became, in 2002, the latest gas works SUPERFUND NPL Site at the request of the Wisconsin DNR. There are a lot of potential similarities that may guide you

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