Get the repository out
Getting lead test results is difficult. As a lifelong resident of the Silver Valley, I and my friends got the $20 incentive to be tested. But we never ever got any results; now I am worried about my family.
When we were tested, like many low-income people in the Silver Valley, the idea was to walk away with $20. Results didn’t matter; no one ever told us anything about lead poisoning. There was never any effort to tell the community. Still isn’t!
My transformation came when I realized that everyone I know has some kind of undiagnosed health problems, including myself. Second, was my participation in the Johns Hopkins University 2010 blood lead study.
I have young children. An amount of lead smaller than a granule of sugar can cause them irreparable harm.
My grievance is with the EPA, not the mining companies, and the lead toxic waste dump at the Old Mission Repository.
Coeur d’Alene Basin Superfund people, hold the EPA accountable to stop this repository and the damage it is doing to our communities. Call or email President Barack Obama, president@whitehouse.gov, (202) 456-6213, now to stop the repository and restore quality of life for all of us.
Shane Stancik
Kellogg