get a grip "you whiner"..Thats what a guy who was,& had been, for more than 30years in the arsenic plant told me,while i suited up (in full)to replace a t.c. in one of the furnaces. He had nothing on (for protection) and laughed at me, in the 102deg. heat. I also took care of the instrumentation on the stack, that they would hang banners on. They had to cut thru 2 locks andwould wreak my work, so had had fun boobytrappin it for em. (charged capacitor)Once i found skin and hair left,&i got hell.
People living in Tacoma on previously contaminated sites are just as affected by arsenic poisoning as workers replacing the soil. I've lived on contaminated soil all my life until a few years ago, and I'm certainly not happy about it or comfortable with the fact that slag still litters Schuster Parkway, but this video seems more the product of whiney rich people concerned about anything that destroys their dream of a perfect, safe life.
the funny thing about this. the video they show of the construction isnt even the site in ruston, wa. There is no place that looks like that in this town.
Wow medmark, you are a geographical genius!I guess the people that attend the monthly Ruston City Council meeting and talk about the mythical 97 acre site on the Puget Sound that borders Ruston,WA & Tacoma,WA are delusional.I suppose the Ruston building permits, images from Google Maps and the video surveillance are all forgeries and the actual site for this Urban Village is in La La Land, your place of birth! Two words: Re Hab! Are you smoking Asarco Sticky-Icky? IT'S A CONSPIRACY, MAN!
This is just Union propaganda! This entire site was cleaned up as an EPA superfund 3yrs ago. I know for a FACT that the EPA monitors the site daily and is independant from Rain City. The Carpenters Union is spinning this to make the developers look bad since they hire non-union labor. We all have a right to be provided a safe working environment. And I worked at Pt. Ruston way before it was as cleaned up as it is now.
Well that is just not true. The site is STILL under remediation which means it has not been cleaned up. Arsenic can be found in pure form on the site, as well as lead and cadmium. If it were all cleaned up the health dept. would have access to the site but it is still under EPA jurisdiction as a Superfund site. The developer hires sloppy, unethical contractors and we as a community have to pay for it in poor health. Just check out the Health departments dirt alert program.