Former Rayonier Mill Large Contributor to Dioxin Levels
The State Department of Ecology has released a report based on samples that were taken in 2008. The former Rayonier site was a “large contribution” of the dioxin in a lot of those samples.
The Ecology Department's Rebecca Lawson said the presence of dioxins from the mill is significant enough to warrant a cleanup by Rayonier. She said:
“While they are above what our standard is, they're not so high that we think we have to go out and take immediate action. At the end of the day, it will all come together to be a complete cleanup for the entire site.”
Comments on the study will be accepted through August 30th. On August 3rd, there will be two public meetings at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 East Seventh St. The meetings will be 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
You can find more information about the study here.
The Ecology Department's Rebecca Lawson said the presence of dioxins from the mill is significant enough to warrant a cleanup by Rayonier. She said:
“While they are above what our standard is, they're not so high that we think we have to go out and take immediate action. At the end of the day, it will all come together to be a complete cleanup for the entire site.”
Comments on the study will be accepted through August 30th. On August 3rd, there will be two public meetings at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 East Seventh St. The meetings will be 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
You can find more information about the study here.
posted by Tom Harper at 8:26 PM
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I used to live in Gales Addition a few years ago. My neighbors told me that when the Rayonier mill was operating, the fumes coming from the smokestack would burn the paint off their cars, fences and other stuff.
I moved.
It's interesting that the study samples were taken ten years or more after the Rayonier Mill ceased operations, yet dioxins were still persisting off site in quantities high enough to be detected. Just imagine what the soil samples might have shown if this study had been done right after the mill closed?
Now Port Angeles will be under the plume of even more dioxin emissions when the Nippon Biomass plant comes on line. Because of its location, the Nippon mill will poison larger numbers of people than did Rayonier.
Oh, you nega-trons and nega-mice! When will you ever give up your petulant poutings and your weenie-whinings? When?
The glass is only half full of dioxin and you're acting like it's full! Let's try and see things in a clearer, more positive light. Afterall, Socrates cheerfully drank the cup of hemlock, didn't he?
If you were a fully evolved spiritual being (such as myself), you would know that dioxin is just a handful of random letters which mean what? Nothing. It's simply dust in the wind. Or in this case dioxin in the wind. So what. It's just letters in the wind.
The wind blows where it wants to go and you can't control it. Dioxin is what? Something. Nothing. Who knows? Why not go fly a kite. Yes, you'll feel better and the wind will refresh your meanie-weenie spirit and you'll see that things are nowhere near as bad as you make them out to be.
It's all in your (limited) minds. All is an illusion. I am you. Embrace me. I pluck the flower in the crannied wall, but I don't steal copper from the wreckage of the New Peking.
"The Ecology Department's Rebecca Lawson said the presence of dioxins from the mill is significant enough to warrant a cleanup by Rayonier."
The Depy. of Ecology is saying that areas throughout the city have been contaminated by the emissions from Rayonier mill, and will be part of the clean up effort?
I remember attending a meeting on this a few years ago, and one option being discussed was the removal of a couple inches of topsoil throughout Port Angeles.
Is this what they are talking about?
Noticed the story in the PDN about the bluff by the city landfill collapsing east of where the city spent millions to build a seawall to prevent bluff erosion at the landfill.
5 years or so ago, the city proposed building a seawall to address the ongoing natually occuring erosion of the bluffs by the landfill. For the same amount of money, the city could have removed the trash from the canyon, and allowed the coast to do what the coast does.
Of course, Glenn Cutler pushed the seawall project, which requires the city maintain this seawall for decades to come to combat the sea and forces of erosion. People in the community objected, notably Dry Creek Coalition, but city council went with Glenn Culter.
Now, only a few years after the finish of that construction, exactly what was predicted by those concerned has happened.
The seawall still stands, but the areas on either side are eroding back into the landfill site. No surprise. Now the city engineer says the seawall needs to be "about three to four times longer to cover the entire bluff along the former landfill".
Another example of how poorly the city is being served by Glenn Cutler and his staff.
So, the city spends millions more to build more seawalls along the beaches. As before, the sea continues to erode the areas where the seawalls stop.
"Neal said the bluff erodes on average between 3 inches and 18 inches a year". So, in 50 years, there will be a new peninsula, sticking out from the coastline, as the sea collapses the areas behind the seawalls, and the garbage is washed into the Strait anyways.
Waste of taxpayers money, once again.
I spent much of my youth in Northern Idaho, the mines and smelters around Kellogg were terrible polluters, it was like a wasteland in areas.
But back in the 50's and 60's I guess we didn't know any better, and as one man there said, "The mines were needed and there wasn't any jobs that paid under eight dollars an hour."
Those were good wages for country folks back then so they tolerated the pollution and gray rivers.
Nice to see that the area is being cleaned up some, as for Rayonier, in a hundred years nature will clean it up, for free.
Glenn Cutler appears to be very good at stupid thinking and wasting money that isn't his.
Ultimately, we can't save the low lying areas of New Orleans, downtown PA, and a lot of the bluffs, but ignorant people will keep trying to, as long as it's not their money and they are getting paid well for trying.
Well, I just such work provides some jobs.
"With destruction comes renovation."
What is so irritating about this is that the city council falls for Cutlers' crap, every time.
We elect new council members every couple years as they promise not to be like "the old council", and yet they keep doing the same things "the old council" did!
Billy, you're right. They are real good at spending other peoples' money. Ya wouldn't mind so much, if the projects weren't so stupid to begin with.
Helen wanted a sundae so I took her to the Dairy Queen and there was some of those punk teens that some complain about, blocking the drive into the parking spots.
I pulled right to them and honked my horn and one over six feet that thinks he is a tough shit started swearing at me.
I learned those words long before he did I don't let punk hoods intimidate me, especially when I'm packing a gun.
"Get out of the way you fucking fuck or I'll make hamburger out of you."
They moved down the street.
"Helen wanted a sundae so I took her to the Dairy Queen... Get out of the way you fucking fuck or I'll make hamburger out of you."
Is that why DQ burgers taste weird?
-PAnerd
Ha ha! Great one Billy!
Is that why DQ burgers taste weird?
I have no idea what a DQ burger tastes like, don't recall ever having one.
But I can tell you this, the banana splits at the DQ in PA are generally better than the ones than at the DQ in Sequim.
Downtown PA businesses call for review of PADA leadership
http://www.konp.com/local/7057
"July 15th, 2011 - 12:47pm
(Port Angeles) -- A large group of downtown Port Angeles merchants say they've lost confidence in the leadership of the Downtown Association.
81 merchants signed a petition delivered today to the Port Angeles city manager. The petition states that the signers want a review of the association's board and its executive director. Specifically, they want the city conduct performance audit of the organization.
The merchants way there's a lack of transparency and accountability to the full PADA membership. They also say they have concerns about the quality and quantity of work accomplished on behalf of the downtown and a lack of accomplishment and leveraging of Main Street status to benefit the downtown. "
Funny how PDN doesn't cover this.
Wonder what a public disclosure request would reveal.
"81 merchants signed a petition delivered today to the Port Angeles city manager"
Does the KONP clip say who started the petition? Just curious.
There probably will be something in the PDN tomorrow, since they don't have a Sat. edition. Just sayin'.
Performance audit? Doesn't everyone already know the PADA is a waste of time, money and effort?
You may have seen this before, it is a year old, but it sure is fascinating to see how this country got into this mess, and what we can expect next.
"Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE
Here is a proper link to the KNOP NEWS about the PADA.
I don't know much about the PADA but I don't suppose they are anymore effective than the PABA.
It's just a bunch of monkeys wanting to be the chief of the tribe while spending others money.
It's just my personal opinion but I think if they want a better downtown area that they should spend their own money making it so instead of expecting everyone else to chip in.
And they should keep chasing those punk teens away until they go somewhere else, they can go out in the woods and be punk teens.
Make them a Punk Teen park they can go to and trash, I'll suggest on the edge of a bluff, hehehe
PDN has a Friday edition, and this was a news story from Thursday.
I think they're complicit with the PADA
That VIDEO was long but pretty interesting, it's everyone's greed and wants that causes these problems, yup, go look in a mirror.
What we need now is a good local scandal, like catching a couple of them in bed with each other, we deserve some entertainment for our tax dollars.
The enemies of the people are criminals and governments and associations.
why not...
Why??
Billy sez: "That VIDEO was long but pretty interesting, it's everyone's greed and wants that causes these problems, yup, go look in a mirror."
I liked the part with Bush, looking like a chimp, is urginmg everyone to buy a house 8 months after 9/11.
Yeah, the economy was in the shitter, and there he is, urging Americans to obligate themselves to more debt.
That really worked well.
See, he was being positive!
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