[Peace] [Fwd: [Fwd: 5th and Hill Neighborhood Rights Campaign Meeting - Saturday - 1/19/08 - 12 p.m.]]

[Joe Futrelle]

Hello all, a reminder about an important community meeting coming up
on Saturday about the 5th and hill toxic site. -j

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Subject: 	5th and Hill Neighborhood Rights Campaign Meeting - Saturday -
1/19/08 - 12 p.m.
Date: 	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:12:14 -0600
From: 	Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

You are invited to attend this upcoming meeting of the 5th and Hill
Neighborhood Rights Campaign. This Campaign is being organized as a result
of the "Community Meeting on the Toxic Site at 5th and Hill" held on
December 8, 2007 at the Douglass Branch Library.

The 5th and Hill Neighborhood Rights Campaign is dedicated to protecting the
health of the neighborhood and the rights of the community in relation to
the toxic site owned by Ameren, located at 5th and Hill Streets in
Champaign.

Please join us for this Campaign meeting, where we will discuss:
.       the health effects of toxins found at the 5th & Hill site;
.       neighborhood rights under the law;
.       the role of elected officials in helping our community on this
issue.

Come and learn what you can do to help! All are welcome!

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5th and Hill Neighborhood Rights Campaign Meeting
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Douglass Branch Library
504 E. Grove Street, Champaign

Refreshments provided

For more information or to RSVP, please contact:
Champaign County Health Care Consumers - (217) 352-6533 .
cchcc at healthcareconsumers.org <mailto:cchcc at healthcareconsumers.org> CU
Citizens for Peace and Justice - (217)
344-1811 . livingsoul at sbcglobal.net <mailto:livingsoul at sbcglobal.net>

Or visit our website to RSVP:
http://www.healthcareconsumers.org/index.php?action=Display%20Page&id=561
<http://www.healthcareconsumers.org/index.php?action=Display%20Page&id=561>

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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.


-- 
Joe Futrelle
Prairie Green Party
http://www.prairiegreens.org/


-- 
Joe Futrelle
Person