Killdeer Mayor Dan Dolechek
Posted on 04/07/2008 10:23:24 AM PDT by yankeedame
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Killdeer Mayor Dan Dolechek
KILLDEER, N.D. — The sounds of children playing baseball has been silenced at one ball field... Officials fear the ground itself is...unsafe.
The ballpark...is covered with crushed gravel containing erionite...
The rock, used for decades on everything from gravel roads to flower beds, contains fibers that can collect in the lungs of people who breathe it, health officials say.
....Environmental Protection Agency coordinator, said studies have shown that erionite causes cancer in lab rats...
...Killdeer [pop. 700] Mayor Dan Dolechek said the ballpark was shuttered as a precaution...But many residents are more worried about road maintenance than the risk of cancer from the gravel.
...Dunn County now will have to look outside its borders for gravel, a potentially costly change.
.... officials have been testing rocks and airborne samples...over the past two years. But they say more tests, including tests on humans, are needed.
The EPA said it wants to test local residents...and is looking for volunteers....with results of the study completed in about 18 months.
"I'm 80 years old and it hasn't killed me yet," said Milton Johnson..."They can test my lungs if they want — I've been breathing it all my life."
....Western North Dakota could have "hundreds of miles" of roads paved with gravel containing erionite... Paving them with asphalt would be too costl....
"If it is determined to be cancer-causing, then what?" she asked.
Way [Steve Way, EPA coordinator]... said the agency wasn't looking that far ahead.
"I don't have an answer," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The coveted “Killdeer Ping”.
I’m willing to bet there is only 1 other FReeper that’s been to Killdeer. Don’t tell the enviro-freaks, but we left a lot of toxic lead there too.
If they were really to be consistent, they would shut down San Francisco since it has naturally-occurring high levels of asbestos that would be otherwise illegal under EPA guidelines.
It is my understanding that Globe, AZ is built on an exposed outcropping of asbestos! Hmmm.
This explains why there have been no lab rats observed on the ball field.
I think they should keep all lab rats far away from this stuff.
Psssst ............”Soyleant Green is people”
It’s the eeeeend of the wooooorld as we know it....
and I feel fine
LOL
I considerd a house there which I could have had for a song. Called the DEP, found out that the only environmental risk was in trace amounts of heavy metals which "might" emphasize "might" someday increase in tiny local streams and "might" pose a hazard to certain wildlife but these levels were all within accepted ranges even in those streams.
For this, the area has remained unused for decades, and people believe it is an environmental disaster in their midst.
If you left half the amount of lead around there as I did the EPA is going to hunt us down and throw away the key
The DNR too! I know of at least one deer and several pheasants that have died from lead poisoning as a result of my activities. ;-)
People avoid driving in someone else's dust.
On a dirt road you want to be back where the wind will carry the dust from the vehicle ahead of you away before you get there, just so you can see.
In winter, the roads do not emit much dust, snow and the cold work to keep that down.
So exposure is not like being in a sealed room with torn up asbestos flapping in the draft from the heat vent, but dealing with material outside which people tend to instinctively avoid; material which is carried away and dissipated by the wind.
Sounds like they should re-open that field right away. Nothing like some good old human testing.
The hell with rats! I want to know how many actual human cases of cancer or death is attributable to this dust. If none, the the EPA should go straight back to Washington — in straight-jackets and leave this country alone to grow - without their fear-mongering!
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