STATE PARKLAND

Delaware Super Fund Sites:

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http://www.epa.gov/reg3hscd/super/de.htm

Are we developing another superfund site in our parkland in North Wilmington. Finding out later will not help us live any longer!

EPA REGULATED SITES IN 19809

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Paste in your Address Bar:

http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/multisys_web.report

href="http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/multisys_web.report">

With all the Warnings of this Dump causing health problem, including cancer, Secretary Hughes has to be removed?

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Careless and I don't give a hoot by Secretary Hughes, just does not cut it when Children and Adults Health is concerned!

This compost as it is called might be free but your Insurance Companies will pay, In my opinion on what I have published and resurched all will suffer!!!

Whe are building the biggest pile of Toxins Ever, is free compost worth it? And to boot on park land?

This should be an Election Issue, will it be or will We in Delaire especially be forgotten. Those utilizing the compost should be informed of what its content are! Those tomatoes you grow with it may contain unknown toxins!

What in the Water We Drink?
Paste this link into your address bar: http://www.fw.delaware.gov/Fisheries/Pages/Advisories.aspx
Click on: 2007 Fish Consumption Advisories Chart, it tells you what in the water!!
and then past this EPA SITE FOR 19809 sites. http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/multisys_web.report

Trees and Leaves and evergreens, moved from one dump creating another problem that have:

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over shadowed Pollution Dangers from air born pollution, organic toxins,and more in to our waters and streams! Don't we want a compresensive plans. One that won't be one planned by Current Secretary of DNREC...... Secretary Hughes has to be stopped or removed.
"Groups should become aware of entire problem", before they act!. Let's stop spending time and resources saving leaves, trees and evergreens and wismical creating more dumps in residential area.
Tackle the real problem not discussed in years.
Pollution keeps on growing, it has not been addressed fully, just actions that sound good to keep the public off base!.

I might Mention that Secretary of DNREC did not know of the quarry at Bellevue, he assumed it was a landfill. Resarch is a non issue with this Department. But who cares about The History of Delaware?

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Dead leave and trees and Evergreens, of course that's the easy one to Crow About- What has been done? To look like Secretary Hughes is doing something?
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We are told what we are going to accept:

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SIMPLY Put ...Secretary Hughes TELLS YOU WHAT YOUR GETTING TODAY and Representatives fall in line as do civic associations...that CALLS FOR A CHANGE AT THE TOP. Secretary Hughes has to be stopped or removed. Groups should become aware of entire problem. Do want know substances killing you children when they could be reduced or eliminated Now?

Let stop spend time and resources saving , leaves, trees and evergreens and building more dumps in residential area. Takle the real problem not discussed in years.
Pollution keeps on growing,it has not been addressed fully, just actions that sounds good. Secretary Hughes is Probably Just a Political Contributor.

Trees and Leaves and evergreens, moved from one dump

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to another is a game of musical chairs and have over showed Pollution Dangers from air born pollution, vapor sepage and to our waters and streams!

Parkland is gone, Dump Comes!!!! Secretary Violative of the Law?

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Secretary Hughes is VIOLATIVE OF THE RULES, REGULATIONS, STATUES which established these sites:

In my reading of the terms for selection of these dump sites,

THERE IS TO BE A COMMITTEE SELECTED BEFORE THE SITES ARE CHOSEN.

No committee has been chosen: Secretary does not have the
authority to select these sites alone,
it is implied by the Law,Statues, Rules and Regulations of the State, that a
committee does.

YET SECRETARY HUGHES ESTABLISHES THE BELVIEW Dump Site, in the face of OPPOSITION
BY VOTERS! Plus we learn of Higher Level of Air Pollution, Emmissions from AIR-
FLARES

AT Refineries and at Cherry Island Driving I-495 You may see one
burning look for the Odd shaped stainless steel cones with Tops coming out of the
ground. Next to these you can see these flare offs.

Why couldn't these areas have hugh fans to blow the dangerious emmissions upward,
guess no one ever thought how England got rid of its fogg>>> Or how Germany
has reduced Emmissions by 30%. They utilize a Government Sponsored Solar
Panels System that rewards the individuals who installs them while earning
dollars selling back electricity to the producers.
We are worried about leaves and trees and more dumps for theses!

9/10's or 45,000 - 50,000 tons of Yard Waste and Compost? Coming to Bellevue Aquatice Center!!

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Beware of pesticides and their impact on health, environment

By Sarah Little / Guest Columnist
Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Spring is here, so here come the pesticides! But before you reach for yours, please think twice - pesticides are poisons. And before you consider using a pesticide, promise yourself you'll read the label and think a moment about what it says. Be aware that the ill-effects of pesticides on our health and environment are well documented.

Pesticides are hazards to human health

The American Association of Poison Control Centers reported that, each year, approximately 20,000 children are involved in common household pesticide poisonings. In the case of acute pesticide toxicity, according to Massachusetts Poison Control, "Harm to the body can occur within minutes of being poisoned by a chemical pesticide. Symptoms include: headache, nausea, diarrhea, stomachache, and flu-like symptoms. Poisoning can occur through ingestion, inhalation, or skin contact."

The effects of long-term or repeated lower level exposures to a toxic substance do not appear immediately and may take months to years to produce signs and symptoms. In 1983 it was found that pesticide applicators have 3 times the risk of developing lung cancer. In 1986 several lawn fungicides were classified as "probable" carcinogens by the Environmental Protection Agency. One of the products, mancozeb, reacts with sunlight to form a "known" carcinogen. In 1993, a study found that the common pesticide Dursban (chemical name chlorpyrifos) caused immune system disorders in people when their homes were treated with it. In 1995, researchers at the University of Southern California School of Medicine found that low levels of chlordane caused neurological disorders, attention deficit disorder symptoms, and "probably irreversible dysfunction of the brain." In 1996, a study found that working as a golf course superintendent significantly increases the risk of dying of four types of cancer: brain, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, prostate and large intestine. In 1998, the American Public Health Association reported that just a small amount of toxin exposure during critical periods of development can have an irreversible effect lasting a lifetime. In a comparative study in Mexico, children exposed routinely to pesticides demonstrated decreases in stamina, coordination, memory, and the ability to draw familiar objects. In 2001 the United States General Accounting Office concluded that pesticides can have an adverse effect on human health and the environment, and federal agencies should be doing more to encourage pesticide use reduction.

Do you love your dog or cat?

Cancer is the number one killer of dogs and cats in this country. Many pesticides, their breakdown products, their inert ingredients, or their contaminants have been implicated in causing cancer. Your pets' habits, such as grooming and eating grass, increase their risk of exposure to pesticides, and they can't read warning signs to stay off the treated grass of your or your neighbor's property. A National Cancer Institute study found in 1991 that dogs whose owners used common broadleaf weed killers containing 2,4-D, had twice the rate of lymphoma (a cancer of the immune system) as dogs whose owners did not use it.

Tell the world you care

A 1995 survey of homeowners found that "A lawn is considered a source of beauty, pleasure, and economic value; an integral part of one's home, sending a clear message to others about the kind of people who live in the house." Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but a large expanse of perfectly green, uniform lawn without a single weed or blemish also sends the message that the homeowner does not realize the serious environmental and health effects of pesticides. Nor do they realize that they are unwittingly exposing themselves, their neighbors, and their community to risk from toxic chemicals. The point is, you can have an attractive lawn and beautiful yard, without using any chemical pesticides. People all over the country are doing just that by using organic lawn care and native plant landscaping. These techniques have the added benefit of reducing the fertilization and water needs of your yard. You can tell the world you have great taste, AND you care.

Avoiding secondary-pesticide exposure

The Wellesley Pesticide Awareness Campaign is trying to reach every Wellesley household with information and assistance for transitioning from common pesticide use to healthier and wiser pest management, but in reality it takes time to get the word out. Even if you, like many people in Wellesley, don't use pesticides, you can still be subjected to secondary-pesticide exposure. What can you do to avoid this? It is impossible to know the risk from a single exposure, but realize that for each exposure you avoid, you're making a deposit into your health bank for the future. If you transition to organic lawn care, you deposit a windfall, and your neighbors get some too!

Here are some tips for avoiding pesticides in your own Wellesley neighborhoods:

? Teach children to stay away from lawns and other areas where pesticide warning signs are posted. Pesticides persist for weeks to months. Keep children off treated lawn areas even after the pesticide warning signs are gone. Children's health is particularly sensitive to pesticide toxins.

? Avoid taking walks or exercising where you see landscapers applying chemicals, where you find a smelly, chemical odor, or on pesticide granules or powder residues on streets and sidewalks.

? Take off your shoes when you enter your house.

? Keep your pets off treated lawns. They track pesticides back into your own home.

? If your neighbors spray, ask them to notify you in advance so you can keep your children and pets inside, cover play equipment, sandboxes, garden vegetables and lawn furniture, and close windows to keep the spray or vapor cloud from drifting into your home.

? Educate your neighbors and friends about safe, ecological approaches to insect and weed control. Make sure they've seen our new "Healthy Lawns and Landscapes" brochure, available at Bread and Circus or the Town Hall.

Making the switch

If you are interested in transitioning to non-toxic lawn care, the Wellesley Pesticide Awareness Campaign would like to help. We realize it is not always easy to do, and it can take time. But your lawn can be green - AND healthy. Some of our local garden centers are very willing to help you get started on organic lawn care, for instance Needham Garden Center in Needham, and Russell's Garden Center in Wayland. The Natural Resources Commission can offer suggestions for books and resources, and maintains a list of ecologically minded landscapers. You can get on our e-mail list and receive updates on local ecological lawn and landscape workshops, the latest techniques and materials, and to find out about simple less-toxic pest control techniques. And if you want to know more, read up! There are a lot of great books out there in including "Tiny Game Hunting" by Klein and Wenner, or "Edaphos: Dynamics of a Natural Soil System" by Paul Sachs. Visit www.ci.wellesley.ma.us/nrc/pesticide, call the Natural Resources Commission at 781-431-1019 x294, or e-mail us at nrc@ci.wellesley.ma.us. Do it today! We look forward to your call.

Sarah Little is Wellesley's pesticide awareness coordinator, working under the Natural Resources Commission.

There is a picture attached to this site of a much smaller site in Wilmington, on the Governor Printz. Take a look at it, you'll have a small picture of what a lot less that 45,000 tons of compost and mulsh look like.

45,000 Tons is about 9/10's of what we are too take which would have gone to Cherry Island, all within 200ft of our Back Yards! Seems Unfair, but our Representative Politicans say NO IT ISN'T. YOU WILL LOVE IT, and you have no say!!

LET US NOT FORGET THAT THIS SITE IS TO BE FOR THE RECLYCING OF XMASS TREES NOW ACCOMPLISHED AWAY FROM ALL AT the Bellevue Park where currently bottles, oil, paper and more leave and compost is stored. So why the move from secluded site to a Great Visual View. Maybe DNREC wants us to know there doing something With Taxpayers and more importantly Voters Money?

Here is one Great Idea for DNREC:

Lets give each home-owner, apartment complex one trash compactor, they are better than a mulshing lawn mower as Sec. Hughes wants us to get, for they compact our trash before it gets to the Dump.

I have seen a weeks worth of family household garbage go into two 10 gallon paper bags. They are about $800.00 but well worth it, when you consider the amount of trash space they save!

But that would be addressing the entire problem of space at the Land Fill!!!! Oh! Dare We?

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Secretary Hughes Legacy on our Waterways, from DNREC Own Pamplet:

2007 Delaware Fish Consumption Advisories
Statewide Fresh Water, Estuarine & Marine Waters
Body ofWater Species Geographical Extent Contaminants of Concern
Advice*
One meal = 8-oz. serving for an adult and a 3-oz serving for children
All Waters NOT Specifically Listed Below All Species NOT Specifically Listed
Below
All Areas NOT specifically Listed Below All No more than one meal per week
Delaware Estuary and Tributaries Body of Water Species Geographical
Extent Contaminants of Concern Advice*
One meal = 8-oz.
serving for an adult and a 3-oz serving for children Delaware River All Finfish
Delaware State Line to the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal PCBs, Dioxin, Mercury,
Chlorinated Pesticides No consumption Weakfish-all sizes; Bluefish-14 inches or
less C & D Canal to the Mouth of the Delaware Bay PCBs No more than one
meal per month Lower Delaware River and Delaware Bay Striped Bass White Perch
American Eel Channel Catfish White Catfish Bluefish-greater than 14 inches C & D Canal to the Mouth of the Delaware Bay PCBs, Mercury No consumption for
women of childbearing age and children. All others, no more than onemeal per year
Shellpot Creek All Finfish Philadelphia Pike to the Delaware River PCBs No consumption Army Creek and Pond All Finfish Entire Creek and Pond PCB, Dioxin/Furans,
Dieldrin, Toxaphene No more than two meals per year Red Lion Creek All Finfish Route 13 to the Delaware River PCBs, Dioxin No more than one meal per year 2
Delaware Estuary and Tributaries (continued)
Body of Water Species Geographical Extent Contaminants of Concern Advice*
One meal = 8-oz.serving for an adult and a 3-oz serving for children
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal All Finfish Entire Canal in Delaware PCBs, DDT, Dieldrin,
Chlordane No consumption Appoquinimink River All Finfish Tidal Portions PCBs, Dioxin No more than onemeal per year Drawyers Creek All Finfish Tidal Portions PCBs, DDT No more than one meal per year Silver Lake Middletown All Finfish Entire Lake PCBs, Dieldrin, DDT, Dioxin No more than one meal per year St. Jones River All Finfish River Mouth to Silver Lake Dam PCBs, Dioxin, Mercury No more than two
meals per year Moores Lake All Finfish Entire Pond PCBs, DDT No more than two
meals per year Silver Lake Dover All Finfish Entire Pond PCBs, Dioxin, Mercury No more than two meals per year Wyoming Mill Pond All Finfish Entire Pond PCBs, Dioxin, DDT No more than two meals per year Prime Hook Creek All Finfish Entire Creek Mercury
Women of childbearing age and children should not eat more than one meal per month. All
others, no more than two meals per month.
3. Delaware Estuary and Tributaries (continued)
Body of Water Species Geographical Extent Contaminants of Concern
Advice*
One meal = 8-oz. serving for an adult and a 3-oz serving for children Waples Pond All Finfish Entire Pond Mercury Women of childbearing age andchildren should not
eat more than one meal per month. All others, no more than two meals per month
Slaughter Creek All Finfish Entire Creek PCBs, Dioxin/Furans No more than six
meals per year Christina Basin Body of Water Species Geographical
Extent
Contaminants of Concern
Advice*
One meal = 8-oz. serving for an adult and a 3-oz serving for children Tidal randywine
River All Finfish River Mouth to Baynard Boulevard PCBs No consumption Non-tidal
Brandywine River All Finfish Baynard Boulevard to PA Line PCBs, Dioxin No more than two meals per year Tidal Christina River All Finfish River Mouth to Smalley’s
Dam PCBs, Dieldrin No consumption Non-tidal Christina River All Finfish Smalley’s Dam to DE/MD Line. PCBs, Dieldrin, Chlordane No more than six meals per year
Tidal White Clay Creek All Finfish River Mouth to Route 4 PCBs No consumption
4
Christina Basin (continued)
Body of
Water Species Geographical Extent Contaminants of Concern
Advice*
One meal = 8-oz. serving for an adult and a 3-oz serving for children
Non-tidal White Clay Creek All Finfish Route 4 to DE/PA Line PCBs No more than one
meal per month Red Clay Creek All Finfish State Line to Stanton PCBs, Dioxin, Chlorinated Pesticides
No more than two meals per yearLittle Mill Creek All Finfish Creek Mouth to Kirkwood Highway PCBs No consumption Becks Pond All Finfish Entire Pond PCBs, Mercury No more than one meal per year Stocked Trout Body of Water Species Geographical
Extent Contaminants of Concern
Advice*
One meal = 8-oz. serving for an adult and a 3-oz serving for children Christina Creek Stocked Trout Rittenhouse Park to DE/MD Line PCBs, Dieldrin No more than six
meals per year Designated Trout Streams and Ponds other than Christina Creek
Stocked Trout Designated Trout Stocking Areas are listed in the
Delaware 2007 Fishing Guide and at
http://www.dnrec.state.de.
us/fw/trout/troutmaps.htm
PCBs No more than one per month 5
Delaware Atlantic Coastal Waters including Delaware Inland Bays
Body of Water Species Geographical Extent Contaminants of Concern
Advice*
One meal = 8-oz. serving for an adult and a 3-oz serving
for children Bluefish-14 inches or less
Coastal Delaware from Mouth of the Delaware Bay Southward to MD/DE Line
PCBs No more than one meal per month Delaware Atlantic Coastal Waters
including Delaware Inland Bays Bluefish-greater than 14 inches
Coastal Delaware from Mouth of the Delaware Bay Southward to
MD/DE Line PCBs, Mercury No consumption for
women of childbearing age and children. All others, no more than one meal per year
Notes:
1. The pollutant listed first is of the greatest concern in this system.
2. Proper trimming and cooking of fish can reduce but not eliminate the risk associated with PCBs, dioxins, and chlorinated pesticides. Trimming and cooking does not reduce the risk associated with mercury. * Do not add meal restrictions together. The advice for different species and different water bodies should not be combined.

Cancer Rates http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/factsheets/ChronicDisease/delaware.htm

Quarry Railroad Bridge Support Pods 1800's

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Impact on Bellevue Corporate Center!

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From I 95 going into the Bellevue Corporate Center no longer to be the Grand View it is Now!

Renters, Rentees, Customers, Consumers, are to be treated with not the small rolling plain as they see now but by the View of 45,000- 50,000 TONS of Trash diverted from Cherry Island Dump.

Save a Historic Site

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The Aquatice Center was placed on the site of an historic late 1800's to 1920's Granite Quarry. What is left of the Quarry is very important to identify the early impact of Belview to the Developing United States. There is left granite piers (8)from an early private railroad that took mined quarry granite to the port at Fox Point. Granite was shipped to Philadelphia. The next quarry to come along at Shipley Road and Phila Pike utilized its stone for bulk heads along the lower Delaware river near Lewis.

Additional remains are of a run off, that's were Stoney Run Creek was diverted into the quarry where large pieces of granite were washed and wash water then returned to the Creek.

Let not bury such a Historic Site to a Public Dump!

NO DIRT BUFFER BETWEEN LAYERS OF TRASH AT CHERRY ISLAND

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Well we are to get your trash, but your incorrect, leaves provided a much needed and back to earth layer between toxins at Cherry Island. Neatley Compactied over years by the earths' gravity leaves turn into dirt and form a layer of insulation now gone from the Landfill. It takes a million years to reach a dept of 1" with leaves. leaves could not had added 1 inch into to the dump over one million years let alone 2010.

You have now left pure toxic wast material that will rapidly increase exposure to the Delaware River.

Every fishing license fact book you get upon purchase of said license "gives a warning of eating fish caught in Delaware Waterways". The warning contains a limitation of eating fish for children and adults.

Get a booklet it is worth reading, and I do not believe you would be eating any fish from Delaware Waters any more.

Additionas exerps from the files of on-line DNREC:
The presence of cyanide in the Red Clay Creek should be confirmed through resampling, and its source identified. Cyanide will be included in the
monitoring program for the United Water, Stanton Plant. United Water
Delaware should carefully monitor their chlorination process, and adjust it
as necessary. This project sampled surface water during low-flow (or
baseflow) conditions, and not during storm water conditions. A more
“time-sensitive” study would be needed to expand the assessment to include
all of the flow scenarios. 5.1.4 Christina River above Smalley’s Pond Intake
(Storet # 106031)Results A trace concentration of chloroform (0.7 mg/L) was the only VOC detected in the untreated water from Smalley’s Pond. No finished water sample was
collected as the treatment system was offline at the time of sampling. No
SVOC compounds were detected. Please refer to Table 23 for a complete list
of detected analytes.
Aluminum was the only metal detected in the Smalley’s Pond sample, at a
concentration similar to the Red Clay Creek and Brandywine Creek samples. It is likely naturally occurring.
The common herbicide dacthal was also detected in the untreated sample from
Smalley’s Pond, at a concentration of 0.12 mg/L.
Observed levels of sulfate, chloride, TDS and pH were comparable to those
from other surface water and ground water locations. No drinking water
standards were exceeded. A nitrate concentration of 360 mg/L was the lowest
concentration observed in the study.
DID DNRE GET BACK AND CHECK RED CLAY CREEK, THAT where nort Wilmington siphons off open water for you to Drink. What in the air get into opem waterways. Why doesn't north Wilington get well water from the same protectd source as Artesian Customers?
While DREC and others work on Leaves, trees and evergreens we are exposed to more toxic material in the air and the water we drink!

Family Gathering Place Old Very Large Granite Round Table.

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Before this great family gathering spot with its round Granite flat surface is gone: I will be attempting to get a clear picture of it. One Brilliant Day a Dad and his daughter were enjoying lunch together there. I said to myself, Wow, we are loosing so much!

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More Trash In Stoney Run Creek

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North of Wilmington DNREC has placed along with Representative McWilliams D Wilmington approval a gift for us. A Trash Heap. 100 yars from our Stoney Run Creek and a little further from the homes in Delaire. No imput thank you?

Stoney Run Creek is a major source of small fish used for bait, you can see the cars lining up on the Governor Prince where the tidal water of the Delaware and Stoney Run Creek meet to net the fish. Now the State and Rep. McWilliams will have fertilizer, chemicals from tomato plants and other spraying or dusting agents leaching our Creek.

In my opinion we need Representation in our District, we need someone to run againt D. McWilliams in 08, the Environment needs our help and someone we Elect Who Cares!