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	Death Of A Town
		The residents of Times Beach were to be relocated and the town were to be bought out by the federal government.
		The children of Times Beach were in greatest danger because they remembered playing in the purplish puddles left after the spraying and they were been isolated in their new homes.
		Times Beach provided the citizens and the government the reason to pass laws concerning the safety practices involving chemical manufacturing and waste disposal.
	syngen2.chem.brandeis.edu /~walker/timesbch.html (2826 words)

	Times Beach, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Times Beach, Missouri was a small town of 2,240 residents in St.
		Times Beach was founded in 1925 on a floodplain along the Meramec River in a promotion by the now-defunct St.
		The site of Times Beach now houses a wild bird sanctuary and a 409 acre (1.7 km²) state park commemorating Route 66—the famous highway that stretched from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California and passed by the community—as well as the history of the Times Beach area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri (913 words)

	Ill Fated Times Beach, Missouri
		But for the residents who moved, the scare was not over, as they continue to worry about the contamination effects on their long term health.
		As to the lawsuits involving the chemical companies, no laws were in effect that regulated the disposal of hazardous waste at the time of the disposal.
		The 1983 buyout of the town by the federal government was the first time such a thing had ever occurred in the history of our nation.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /MO-TimesBeach.html (1101 words)

	CNN Interactive: Times Beach: June 25, 1997
		LaVerne Baker, former Times Beach resident said, "I got up one morning and the men were out there in their white suits and they start testing for dioxin and that’s the first I knew of anything about this."
		She was mayor of Times Beach from 1983 until 1985, when the town disincorporated itself.
		Times Beach doesn’t celebrate Earth Day, it stands monument to it, a potent non-military symbol of man's destructive capability.
	www.cnn.com /US/9706/26/times.beach/flashback (382 words)

	Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor is a long string of adjoining conservation areas in the US state of Missouri, running 24 miles along Interstate 44 and 40 miles along the Meramec River.
		Most of the land in this area was devalued after the dioxin contamination in Times Beach, Missouri, allowing for the creation of these conservation areas and parks.
		The Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor Foundation is an organization founded officially in 1994 to preserve the Ozark foothills along Interstate 44 and promote maintenance and expansion of the Ozark Corridor series of parks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Shaw_Ozark_Corridor (158 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam (1994)
		Times Beach is a small town on the banks of the Meramac River that has miles of unpaved roads.
		On February 22, 1983, in St. Louis, Anne Burford, EPA Administrator, announced that the federal government and the state of Missouri would purchase the properties in Times Beach, and the residents began to abandon the town (Gough, 1986).
		One of the recommendations of the task force was to establish a dioxin research center in Times Beach for ongoing sampling and analysis of the contaminated soil (Yanders, 1988).
	www.nap.edu /books/0309048877/html/41.html (724 words)

	Times Beach One-Page Summary, Superfund Redevelopment Program, US EPA
		The nation turned its attention to the town of Times Beach, Missouri when EPA in 1982, in a dramatic move for safety, closed it down after discovering dangerous levels of dioxin.
		Cleaning the Times Beach Superfund site was a massive effort that included installing a temporary incinerator to burn the contaminated soil.
		Because Times Beach is located along the river and adjacent to a major highway, the state decided to develop the site as a park.
	www.epa.gov /superfund/programs/recycle/success/1-pagers/timesbch.htm (589 words)

	A REVIEW OF DIOXIN EMISSIONS AND CEMENT KILNS
		Residents were found to contain 10,000 times the typical human tissue concentration of five to six parts per trillion (ppt).
		It is of significant interest to note that there were children in Seveso, Italy that were exposed to a level of dioxin which was three times the amount, relative to their body weights, that would kill a guinea pig.
		Rather than provide a full blown critique of the document at this time, suffice it to say that the best 12% were not gleaned from each technology/industry, such as cement kilns and hazardous waste incinerators, but rather all waste combustors were lumped together.
	gcisolutions.com /994hwf.htm (2056 words)

	S/R 7-8: The Times Beach Story (Marilyn Leistner)
		Times Beach was a small (480 acre) suburban community some 17 miles west of St. Louis on I-44 highway.
		Times Beach and the EPA both gained national notoriety; one for dual disasters and the other for alleged mismanagement of hazardous waste.
		As time passed, reporters who were once sympathetic were encouraged to avoid writing of Times Beach and dioxin.
	www.greens.org /s-r/078/07-09.html (2856 words)

	National Policy Analysis #380: Patience or Panic? - The EPA Seems to Let Demographics Decide - December 2001
		That wasn't the case in Times Beach, Missouri in December of 1982.
		Today, the EPA official who ordered the Times Beach evacuation admits that it was "unnecessary" and an "overreaction."7 Apparently, the agency did not consider the devastating effects its panicked response would have on the Times Beach residents.
		The fact that Times Beach residents were powerless to fight back probably also influenced their actions.
	www.nationalcenter.org /NPA380.html (867 words)

	Times beach, Mo
		Shortly after the Times Beach story began to unfold, several EPA officials alleged that authorities did not take action or inform citizens until almost a decade after state and federal authorities were well aware of the contamination.
		The CDC study was investigating the health effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam Veterans, in particular the toxic effects of dioxin in the herbicide.
		But for many of us who have lived through the Times Beach saga, we will know that among the toxic ash is buried the integrity of officials and agencies that the public has entrusted to safeguard our health and environment.
	lists.essential.org /1996/dioxin-l/msg00510.html (778 words)

	CNN Interactive: Clean-up ends in toxic town
		A dumpster full of debris is all that remains of the last building left standing in Times Beach, Missouri.
		At about the time Times Beach was learning it had been doused with dioxin, it was doused again.
		And then there are the health problems of the people exposed, like Marilyn Leistner, who used to be the mayor of Times Beach.
	www.cnn.com /US/9706/26/times.beach/times.beach (490 words)

	Times Beach Superfund Site
		The incineration system used at Times Beach was comprised of a solid waste feed system; a countercurrent, controlled-air, rotary kiln with an oxygen-enhanced burner; a secondary combustion chamber (SCC); a wet gas cleaning system (GCS); and a treated material handling system [4].
		Soil and debris were collected in bags, drums, and boxes, and transported to the Times Beach incinerator.
		To prepare the feedstock, soil was mixed with lime to reduce moisture content and debris was shredded to an acceptable size for the incinerator.
	www.clu-in.org /PRODUCTS/COSTPERF/INCINRTN/times.htm (502 words)

	STLtoday - News - Special Reports
		Leading the intense media focus on dioxin contamination in Missouri at the time was the Post-Dispatch.
		In all, 265,000 tons of soil from Times Beach and 26 other dioxin sites in eastern Missouri were incinerated, at a cost of $200 million.
		In September 1999, the former Times Beach reopened as the 409-acre Route 66 State Park.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/news/special/pd125.nsf/0/18B0734C9D32582A86256E04006C3000?OpenDocument (855 words)

	Missouri Vacations - State Of Missouri - Missouri Hotels
		Missouri is a central part of the United States and is surrounded on all sides by the states of Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
		Louis is the largest city in Missouri and is located at the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers which has earned the city the nickname Gateway to the West.
		The Missouri Division of Tourism is an excellent source to help you find the right accommodation in the right city for your travel needs.
	www.missourihotelfinder.com (677 words)

	A Petition To Declare Times Beach, Missouri A National Historic Landmark
		The evacuation of Times Beach was based not on accurate scientific data about human reactions to dioxin, but rather on limited evidence about risk and exposure.
		While the danger from dioxin to the residents of Times Beach was, according to the available epidemiology, low, and although animal tests were inconclusive, the media presented dioxin exposure as a tangible risk that required immediate action.
		In the case of Times Beach, just as in the Salem witch trials and the "Red Scare," the facts were not as important as the public's perception of them.
	www.cei.org /gencon/025,01502.cfm (5378 words)

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		By invoking the law, EPA is threatening to destroy the Times Beach Action Group; TBAG is so small that even one day's fine of $25,000 would bankrupt the organization.
		The town of Times Beach was contaminated in 1971 by a waste oil dealer named Russell Bliss.
		Two children were affected, one with a severe kidney disorder, and were hospitalized for a time; they eventually recovered, though one lost half her body weight in the ordeal.
	www.sonic.net /~kryptox/environ/topics/monsanto.htm (1769 words)

	EPA History - Joint Federal/State Action Taken to Relocate Times Beach Residents
		The action was necessary after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) completed analysis of extensive soil sampling in the area and advised that the hazard posed by dioxin contamination is a continuing threat to the health of citizens in the community.
		Laboratory analysis of post-flood sampling along roadways (including the shoulders and ditches), houses and yards in Times Beach was completed a few days ago.
		The action being taken is to protect the health and safety of the people in a flood hazard area and is not in itself an environmental solution to the dioxin contamination of Times Beach.
	www.epa.gov /history/topics/times/02.htm (426 words)

	EcoIQ: Browsing Times Beach, Missouri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Times Beach, Missouri, was a peaceful small town in the Midwest until residents learned their community had been extensively contaminated with dioxin, one of the most toxic chemicals known.
		Soon after, the town became the first ever to be purchased and condemned by the federal government as a result of toxic waste contamination.
		The environmental disaster in Times Beach is an important cautionary tale with wide relevance, especially for the thousands of communities potentially at risk from toxic pollution.
	shop.ecoiq.com /acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=23&Product_ID=1740&CATID=155 (168 words)

	Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan :: MOSL :: Reference Services Governor's Executive Orders (1985)
		WHEREAS, the City of Times Beach, Missouri was a fourth class city in a first class county with a charter form of government adjoining a city not within a county, and
		Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, the trustee shall accept this appointment in writing, and shall agree to the terms of this appointment.
		The trustee may consult with, and seek the advice of others, including former officials of Times Beach, Missouri, as he deems appropriate.
	www.sos.mo.gov /library/reference/orders/1985/eo1985_010.asp (552 words)

	The Ralston Interface - KATY Trail and Dioxin Contamination! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the Times Beach article it states: Jim Silver, Natural Resources coordinator at Times Beach, said dioxin is known to cause a skin rash and is believed to have an effect on the immune and reproductive systems.
		As it says in the Times Beach dioxin article (quoting Steve Taylor of the Times Beach Action Group): "....[regarding] the follow-up on the health effects [of dioxin]....people are going to be pretty much on their own," Taylor said.
		By the way, to those folks who would say that the past Missouri River flooding should have "taken care" of the residual dioxin along the KATY Trail right-of-way, it should also be noted that the Times Beach site is definitely in a flood plain of the Meramec River.
	www.parrett.net /~rralston/bkaty.html (241 words)

	Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan :: MOSL :: Reference Services Governor's Executive Orders (1992)
		WHEREAS, the former City of Times Beach, Missouri and several other eastern Missouri sites were contaminated with dioxin as a result of waste oil spraying activities conducted in the early l970s; and
		WHEREAS, based upon the extent of the contamination, the former city of Times Beach, Missouri was disincorporated; and
		WHEREAS, the State of Missouri is committed to on appropriate and thorough clean-up of these sights in such a manner that safeguards the public health and the environment and effectively removes the hazard of dioxin that had threatened these sites for several years.
	www.sos.mo.gov /library/reference/orders/1992/eo92_009.asp (459 words)

	Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan :: MOSL :: Reference Services Governor's Executive Orders (1985)
		WHEREAS, Times Beach, Missouri is a fourth class city in a first class county with a charter form of government adjoining a city not within a county, and
		NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN ASHCROFT, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Missouri, specifically Senate Bill No. 333, 83rd General Assembly, First Regular Session, do hereby approve and effectuate the disincorporation of Times Beach, Missouri, effective this date.
		Notice of the disincorporation of Times Beach, Missouri shall be submitted to the Secretary of State and the County Court of the county within which Times Beach, Missouri lies.
	www.sos.mo.gov /library/reference/orders/1985/eo1985_009.asp (242 words)

	MSN Encarta - United States (Geography)
		The dangers of chemical waste disposal came to the forefront of public attention with incidents in communities such as Love Canal near Niagara Falls, New York, in 1979 and Times Beach, Missouri, in 1983.
		At the same time, environmentalists on the peninsula worked closely with businesses and residents to ensure that economic prosperity and social services were not sacrificed by efforts to preserve the environment.
		The high level of consumption in the United States encourages the wise management of natural resources while at the same time poses difficult problems involving the protection of the air, water, and land.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_1741500822_22/United_States_(Geography).html (1962 words)

	CNN Chicago: Toxic Town: Bliss Transcript
		For the first time Russell Bliss speaks publicly about the accident that forever changed the town of Times Beach, Missouri.
		Bliss was the driver of the truck that unknowingly spread dioxin on the gravel roads of the small community.
		Business at the time was selling oil to refineries, to make heavy industrial fuel oil to melt steel and steel foundries.
	edition.cnn.com /US/9706/26/times.beach/transcript/index1.htm (1490 words)

	Times Beach, Missouri
		According to former mayor Marilyn Leistner, the 2,000 residents of Times Beach, Missouri, a community located along the Meramec River, endured a lasting toxic waste episode throughout the Christmas holiday season of 1982.
		The Times Beach episode exemplifies how agencies can use their financial and legal resources to address environmental risks to public health.
		Between 1996 and 1997 Missouri officials, using an environmentally controversial incineration technique, restored the former Times Beach site and turned what was Times Beach into a state park on and dedicated to U.S. Route 66.
	www.pollutionissues.com /Te-Un/Times-Beach-Missouri.html (358 words)

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