[OccupyCU] Fwd: [cchcc-l] CCHCC Encourages You to Attend the Town Hall Meeting on Protecting the Mahomet Aquifer!

Wed May 16 13:06:29 UTC 2012

Fellow Occupiers, 

FYI....something of intrest going on at Beckman tomorrow.  I am already committed somewhere else, just thought others might be interested. 

Sandra 

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From: "Champaign County Health Care Consumers" <cchcc at healthcareconsumers.org> 
To: cchcc-l at lists.shout.net 
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:06:07 PM 
Subject: [cchcc-l] CCHCC Encourages You to Attend the Town Hall Meeting on Protecting the Mahomet Aquifer! 

Dear Friends, 

We are taking a moment to acknowledge the great environmental work of 
another group and to ask you to attend a very important Town Hall Meeting 
on Protecting the Mahomet Aquifer - Thursday, May 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the 
auditorium of the Beckman Institute. More details about this important 
meeting can be found at the end of this email. 

CCHCC has always believed that one aspect of health care justice is a 
healthy environment. People deserve to live in safe and healthy 
neighborhoods with unpolluted water and soil and clean, fresh air. 

That is why we joined with hundreds of affected residents in the 5th & 
Hill Neighborhood to fight to clean up a toxic waste site in their 
neighborhood and ensure that the rights of current and former residents are 
protected. Now another threat to the health and safety of the people of 
Champaign (and hundreds of other communities in Illinois) has surfaced. 

The Mahomet Aquifer is a large collection of water, deep underground, that 
provides clean drinking water for 17 counties in the State of Illinois. 
This precious natural resource is being threatened by plans to allow PCB 
chemicals to be dumped into the Clinton Landfill which sits directly over 
the aquifer. PCB chemicals could find their way into the aquifer and 
contaminate the drinking water for most of the State of Illinois. 

PCB (Polychlorinated biphenyl) chemicals are extremely toxic and are able 
to stay in the environment for a very long time. They stay around so long 
that PCBs can travel up the food chain to harm humans, even if direct 
exposure to these chemicals has not occurred. It is because of this that 
PCB production was banned by the United States Congress in 1979. 

There is now an effort to allow Clinton Landfill to accept these extremely 
dangerous chemicals even though the landfill sits right above a drinking 
water source for most of the State of Illinois, essentially creating an 
environmental ticking time bomb. 

WatchClintonLandfill and other environmental groups have taken this issue 
head on. CCHCC supports their work to prevent PCBs from being dumped in the 
Clinton Landfill as a matter of public health and health care justice. 

There will be a town hall meeting this Thursday where consumers can come 
out and make their voices heard. Lets protect the people of Illinois and 
secure the future of our drinking water for years to come by saving the 
Mahomet Aquifer from PCB contamination. The details for this important 
meeting are below 

* * * * * * * * * * 

TOWN HALL MEETING ON PROTECTING THE MAHOMET AQUIFER 

WHEN: Thursday, May 17, 2012 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. 

WHERE: Beckman Institute Auditorium. 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 

WHO: The meeting will be hosted by the cities of Urbana and Champaign, and 
co-sponsored by Champaign County Health Care Consumers and a number of 
governmental units, religious groups, and environmental organizations. (For 
a list of co-sponsors, please visit http://www.aquiferwatchcu.com/). 

The speakers at the Town Hall Meeting will include: 
 * Dr. George Roadcap of the Illinois State Water; 
 * Survey Dave Holt, publisher of the DeWitt County Constitution and 
co-founder of WatchClintonLandfill; 
 * Joe Hooker, Assistant City Attorney for the city of Champaign; 
 * George Wissmiller, co-founder of WatchClintonLandfill. 

There will be a Q&A at the end of the meeting. 

* * * * * * * * * * 

We hope to see you there! 

Sincerely, 

Champaign County Health Care Consumers 

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Champaign County Health Care Consumers 
44 E. Main Street  Suite 208 
Champaign, IL 61820 

Phone: (217) 352-6533 
Fax:   (217) 352-9745 
E-mail: cchcc at healthcareconsumers.org 
Web:    www.healthcareconsumers.org 
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