just watched a movie last night Atomic Homefront. Very sad what people have to go through!!

[bluestarone]

check it out!!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6829446/

[ADX]

1. Watched it this weekend...

...the residents there are faced with a truly horrific situation...

[bluestarone]

2. yea they are AND NOBODY IS HELPING THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

America is not great for them!!!! I wish them somebody that could really HELP them!!!!

[ADX]

3. I don't understand why these people can't get a buy-out/relocation...

...like the folks at Love Canal did back in the day...

[bluestarone]

5. just politics for sure. There is so much land that is polluted!

This is HUGE! NOBODY wants to even talk about it!!!! and i do mean NOBODY!!

[Sherman A1]

4. Precisely

The Bridgeton Landfill isn't all that far from where I am at. This whole area has "enjoyed" the benefits of the nuclear arms race. The ball fields near McDonnell-Douglas (now Boeing) on the North Side of Lambert Airport, that once were active with numerous teams and games during the Summer were closed after it was discovered that they were a bit "toxic". Weldon Springs in nearby St. Charles County has a DOE huge storage facility (and a nice interpretive center) describing the hazardous stuff.

There is some progress on the Bridgeton site as I understand, some of the toxic stuff is to be addressed in some fashion.

[bluestarone]

6. i really feel for you guys there This has really been kept QUIET!!!

swept under the rug for sure

[logosoco]

7. Watched this the other night! Sad but amazing!

I was just a bit disappointed they did not mention Times Beach (which is just a few miles from where i live now and I spent much time there as a teenager!). My husband and I talked about how maybe it was easier to do a buy out/clean up out here because there were less people.

Another thing I thought was it seems like we did not really win WWII if the leftovers from those bombs are harming so many even still.

I have so much respect for the women who are dealing with this on a personal level but still taking the time to get the word out!

[bluestarone]

8. I was wondering myself if there were OTHER PLACES this is happening too!

And YES gotta hand it to those woman FOR SURE!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[friendly_iconoclast]

9. Ever hear of Holbrook, Massachusetts? Very near me, and I have several friends from there

Very high rates of cancer and birth defects there and in neighboring Randolph

http://staging.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMEQTZ_Baird_and_McClair_McGuire_Metal_Drums_Holbrook_MA

Baird and McClair [McGuire] - Metal Drums - Holbrook, MA - Immortalized in Lyrics on Waymarking.com

Baird and McClair [McGuire] - Metal Drums - Holbrook, MA
in Immortalized in Lyrics
N 42° 08.923 W 071° 01.725
19T E 332371 N 4668280
Quick Description: The song, Metal Drums, composed by local folk singer, Patty Larkin, is about the Baird and McGuire Superfund site, which is currently the 14th worst on the EPA list.

https://www.pattylarkin.com/discography/metaldrums.html

Metal Drums
by Patty Larkin

From the time he was a kid
Mark O'Donnell and his buddies would
Play in the pasture
Out behind his neighborhood
There were acres of vacant land
And they played as only children can
In the pasture

Out in the long tall grass
Metal Drums were lying in the broken glass
The kids would play with the stuff inside of them
They'd crawl in and roll around
End up spinning around on the summer ground
Of the pasture

They were playing the Metal Drums
Banging on the Metal Drums
Beat that Metal Drum a little faster

In the town of Holbrook, Mass.
You're lucky if you got the chance
Working a good job, making a few bucks
And it's Baird & McClair (note: it was actually Baird & McGuire)
They run that chemical plant down there
By the pasture