Scotts the nation's largest supplier of do-it-yourself lawn and garden products has damaged the environment with DDT and other chemicals
... records from the Ohio EPA show that dangerous levels of pesticides and herbicides, including DDT and chlordane, were seeping from Scotts landfills and waste lagoons into a creek that runs through the company's 173-acre complex in the central Ohio city of Marysville.
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Subject: Just Another "Slap On The Wrists"............................
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:45:15 -0400
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read another e-mail I just recieved
entitled: InfoBeat - Report: Scotts polluted environment.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The nation's largest supplier of do-it-yourself lawn and garden products has damaged the environment with DDT and other chemicals, The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday.
The attorney general's office is negotiating a settlement with the Scotts Co. that would involve cleanup, spokeswoman Stephanie Beougher said Monday. She said the state is hopeful the settlement will be reached soon.
The newspaper reported that records from the Ohio EPA show that dangerous levels of pesticides and herbicides, including DDT and chlordane, were seeping from Scotts landfills and waste lagoons into a creek that runs through the company's 173-acre complex in the central Ohio city of Marysville.
The creek joins a tributary of the Scioto River about 10 miles from a source of drinking water for Columbus. City officials said contaminated water would be too diluted to pose a threat once it reached the city's treatment plant.
State records also show that in the 1990s, fish downstream from the plant had chlordane levels that exceeded safe levels for human consumption, the paper reported.
Gary Daugherty, director of corporate environmental engineering at Scotts, told the newspaper that the company wasn't responsible for DDT and other chemicals leaking into the creek.
``We have no evidence that anything ever leached out of a landfill controlled and owned by the Scotts Co.,'' he said.
The EPA didn't start investigating Scotts until after a 1987 fish kill, according to state records. More than 35,000 gallons of wastewater from a Scotts lagoon had spilled into the creek. Scotts blamed the problem on a broken pipe.
A September 1987 EPA memo concluded the company did nothing to contain or otherwise mitigate the effects of that discharge. Scotts agreed to pay a $35,000 fine and installed monitoring wells around one of the waste lagoons.
Well Mr. Helliker, this is just another example of yesterday's "solutions" becoming
today's PROBLEMS! But, not to worry, because either no one is "responsible", the
"real problem" was only a broken pipe and/or the "registered" CONTAMINATION is "too diluted (or whatever) to pose a threat" - Yeah right! Edmund Burke once wrote
in Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents, 1770 that: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; ele they will fall one by one, an unpitied
sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Sounds like Edmund foresaw the coming "registered" contamination/pollution/destruction of our earth and people.
Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
REALITY CHECK:
"The Five 'D's" of corporations:
Deny [harm], Delay [solutions], Divide [opposition], Dupe [the public] and then Dump [the product]
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