EPA bears watching

My involvement with getting the Superfund cleanup done right has been an experience in frustration and disappointment. Specifically, witnessing the condescending attitudes of the Environmental Protection Agency and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality to the people who want EPA to do the cleanup right.

EPA is giving funds to the Basin Commission and IDEQ; how can they not be biased? Agencies are allowing people to believe that jobs will be lost if a moratorium on the Mission Repository prevails, which is nonsense. Jobs will not be taken away if individuals support a moratorium for the Mission Repository. A grass-roots movement of the Silver Valley Community Resource Center, mayors, city councils, to support local job hiring was created years ago. The cleanup is enforced by federal law.

Please, people of the Silver Valley and Basin area, don’t give up. Between 70 and 80 groups, many from back East, are finally starting to look hard at the Mission Repository and how EPA has conducted itself.

We know what is right for our community. Please hang in there. Victory is not easy or far away. Call the SVCRC, (208) 784-8891, to find out how to contact public officials to stop the Mission Repository.

Jerry Miller

Cataldo