[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Champaign toxic site in low income area - community meeting

[Brian Dolinar]

Hi Karen.

This is an event organized by CU Citizens
with lots of help from CCHCC.
Hope you can make it.

Peace, BD

On Dec 4, 2007 6:31 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Champaign County Health Care Consumers announced a
> COMMUNITY MEETING TO DISCUSS LOCAL TOXIC SITE AT FIFTH & HILL STREETS IN
> CHAMPAIGN  -  SATURDAY, DEC. 8 AT 12 P.M. AT DOUGLASS BRANCH LIBRARY
>
> Neighborhood residents and community organizations meet  to learn about
> the
> toxic site at 5th and Hill Streets in Champaign and to discuss process for
> developing site remediation plan. You are invited to attend this important
> meeting!
>
> Please read below for more information about the meeting, and background
> on
> the site.
>
> ******************
> ABOUT THE MEETING:
> On Saturday, December 8, 2007 from 12:00 p.m. to 2 p.m., the CU Citizens
> for
> Peace & Justice, in  collaboration with the Champaign County Health Care
> Consumers (CCHCC) and the UIUC Department of Urban & Regional Planning
> will
> hold a Community Meeting to discuss the toxic site at 5th and Hill Streets
> in the north end of Champaign, IL.
>
> The meeting will address concerns of community health and environmental
> problems in the neighborhood associated with the site. Topics to be
> presented at the meeting include:
>
> *  Presentation of research findings regarding the site and neighborhood;
>
> *  Report on recent meeting between community members, Ameren IP, and City
> of Champaign regarding the process for developing a plan to remediate the
> site;
>
> *  Testimony from local neighborhood residents about their experiences and
> concerns;
>
> *  Plans to establish a coalition to ensure that community health and
> safety
> needs are met throughout the site remediation process.
>
> WHO: CU Citizens for Peace & Justice in collaboration with Champaign
> County
> Health Care Consumers and UIUC Department of Urban & Regional Planning
>
> WHAT: Community Meeting on Toxic Site at 5th and Hill
>
> WHEN: Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
>
> WHERE: Douglass Branch Library - 504 E. Grove St., Champaign
>
> Click here to RSVP:
> http://www.healthcareconsumers.org/index.php?action=Display%20Page&id=557
>
>
> ******************
>
> BACKGROUND:
> The 3.5 acre lot at 5th Street and Hill Street in Champaign is a former
> manufactured gas plant (FMGP) site from 1887 until 1953. Gas was
> manufactured by heating coal, and then following a process to remove coal
> tar and other impurities. The coal tar and other production wastes were
> left
> on the site until the closing of the plant. According to information
> provided by Illinois Power (now Ameren IP) in 1990, the lightweight
> chemical
> compounds found in coal tar, known as BTEX (benzene, toluene,
> ethylbenzene,
> and xylene), move easily through soils and are associated with various
> health problems.
>
> Ameren IP has registered this site, and 24 other sites like it, with the
> Illinois Environmental Protection Agency under their Site Remediation
> Program (SRP). Under this program, Ameren agrees to clean up this site,
> with
> a cost estimate between $3 and $15 million dollars.
>
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> 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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Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
303 W. Locust St.
Urbana, IL 61801
briandolinar at gmail.com
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