Contact: Denise Lee, BREDL
(704) 826-8116
                

TOXIC TOUR
CITIZENS TO TAKE BACK THEIR AIR

WHAT: BREDL and the EM-POWER!  Project of  Communities for a Better
Environment of California will be training concerned citizens on how to
conduct a Bucket Brigade in their neighborhoods. The Blue Ridge Environmental
Defense League (BREDL) and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) will
conduct a Toxic Tour of polluted neighborhoods in the Piedmont. The tour will
include local community people who are ready to take back their air. 

WHY: The purpose of this tour is to become familiar with the surroundings and
design a community based air monitoring protocol specific to each situation.
The time has come for citizens and neighborhoods to ban together to take back
their air. The bucket air-sampling device is an accurate, low cost way to
measure the toxic chemicals present in the air we breathe.

WHEN: Thursday, October 28, 10:00 a.m.

WHERE: In front of the bulk gasoline facilities on Highway 27 in Paw Creek,
North Carolina which is located in the northwest Charlotte area and is home
of the Paw Creek Bulk Gasoline Terminal Complex. The tour will proceed to the
BMWNC medical waste incinerator in Matthews, North Carolina. BMWNC
incinerates waste from at least 10 states in the middle of a residential
community.  Citizen's living around BMWNC have repeatedly complained of foul
odors that burn their eyes, noses and throats. 

From Matthews, we will travel to Solite/Oldover Corporation a hazardous waste
burner and fuel blending facility in Stanly County. Solite's history of poor
operations has resulted in massive releases of toxins into the environment.
The tour will also include an intensive hog operation in Cason Old Field in
Anson County.  Air emissions from industrial hog operations can contain an
array of toxic air pollutants.

PHOTO OP

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Oct. 1999 Bucket Brigade workshop

For more information about the Bucket Brigade, please check out http://www.igc.org/cbesf/rag11/rag11.html#Richmond