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thing that just started recently. The plant opened in the early 1940s, and dead fish in the Shenandoah River were reported shortly after. In fact, the State Water Control Board was formed in response to the rayon plant’s pollution of the Shenandoah.
Though the plant’s ownership and name has changed several times during the intervening 40 years, its dismal record of environmental pollution and health and safety violations have not.
It’s time for residents, regulators and elected representatives to stop playing the company’s game. It’s time to tell Mr. Gregg that he either brings the plant into compliance with state and federal air and water pollution and health and safety regulations, or shuts it down.
For many years, the excuse was that the company’s engineers and managers didn’t know that their waste ponds were leaching acids and other poisons into the river and the groundwater beneath it; that they didn’t know that the aerial emissions from the plant’s smokestacks posed a health threat.
Well, for some years they have known better. But they haven’t stopped polluting.
Enough is enough. As for the substantially reduced emissions from the plant’s smokestacks — our rescue squad took a patient to Warren Memorial Hospital last Thursday afternoon. As soon as we opened to back doors of the air-conditioned ambulance, that familiar stink hit me fullstrength in the nose — no substantial reduction there.
Some things never change.
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