Humboldt Burn Dump
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Burn Dump Heats Up
Water Board Attempts to Skirt Environmental LawsThe Humboldt Road Burn Dump (HRBD) has toxic soil moving, Butte County Air Quality Management District (BCAQMD) monitoring, and everyone holding their breath that dust and litigation don’t fly. The Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) must be pleased that all their posturing and...
Letter writers responses to the E-R's misguided "Miss" in its May 14 editorial
May 24, 2005BEC wants cleanup done rightWe were very disappointed to read the E-R's "Hits and misses"editorial take on the Butte Environmental Council's request for a stay on the Humboldt Road burn dump cleanup.The editorial states BEC "is taking the incongruous step of asking the state not to clean up a toxic burn...
Lead, Lead, and More Lead
The Preliminary Test Results (Interim Site Characterization or ISC) of the Humboldt Road Burn Dump (HRBD) are back. Here are some interesting points of new discovery:1. Early this year citizens informed the Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) of a reported battery recycling/dump operation on parcel APN# 030-050-129. This area...
Comparing Lead: Homes vs. Health
The lead values in the soil at the Humboldt Road Burn Dump (HRBD) site in Chico are higher than those mentioned in a July 17, 2000 article from the LA Times, but we're still lucky here. Unlike Silver Valley, Idaho, a U.S. Superfund site discussed in the article, Chico has not yet made the mistake of allowing homes to be built on or near the...
BEC's response to the E-R's misguided "Miss" in its May 14 editorial
The Chico Enterprise-Record’s May 14, 2005 Editorial reveals the E-R editor’s ignorance of the issues behind BEC’s request of a stay of the Humboldt Road Burn Dump remediation. The E-R’s "Miss" shows the paper’s common use of the Straw Man fallacy - when the author simply ignores the opponent’s actual position and substitutes a...
