-Caveat Lector- World Trade Center site giving off excessive levels of toxins
By DIEGO IBARGUEN, Associated Press NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 3:46 p.m. EDT) - The World Trade Center site is releasing poisonous chemicals and metals into the ground and air at levels that exceed federal safety standards, newly released documents show. Low levels of contaminants also have been detected in the Hudson River and its sediment, according to documents that include hundreds of pages of raw data compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency. The documents, first reported Friday by the Daily News, show the results of daily monitoring of the Trade Center site since the Sept. 11 attacks. They were obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project. The documents show the presence of soil and air contaminants including dioxins, PCBs, lead and chromium - sometimes at levels exceeding EPA standards. In addition, fires still burning beneath the wreckage are releasing relatively high levels of benzene, which can cause leukemia and other diseases from long-term exposure, the environmental law group said in its analysis of the EPA data. According to the EPA's Web site Friday, the levels of benzene in the smoke plume near the debris pile remained above guidelines prescribed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. EPA spokeswoman Mary Helen Cervantes said Friday that the agency is still examining its data. But she said that while some samples were above EPA and OSHA guidelines, many of them, including those for benzene, were taken using deep probes inserted into the Trade Center rubble. She said the toxic levels drop considerably away from the rubble. Previously, government officials have said the air is safe for everyone except rescue workers at the site, who should wear respirators. But during several days in October, when people were returning to the downtown area, EPA data showed that sulfur dioxide gas in the air was at a level that generally triggers public warnings to asthmatics and people with heart problems to stay indoors, according to the environmental law group. LeVon Johnson, 34, a construction worker on his way to the site Friday, said word of the toxins "made me concerned enough that I'm going to see a doctor for a checkup." Johnson said he thinks the mask he wears at the site has protected him, "but there's just a lot of stuff in the air that could be dangerous." Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
