I live in a golf course neighborhood that’s easily 99% white, and the EPA just released a report saying that arsenic has infiltrated the aquifer. They plan on building close to 6000 homes here soon.
The land is polluted to fuck, and there was worry about DEET DDT in the soil because they used to spray it here; so what they did was haul in a bunch of outside soil, and mix up the topsoil layer so that the levels were ‘lower’ and then continued to build houses on it all.
Even at the county level, the commissioner here is corrupt as fuck, and is working with multiple builders from Saudi Arabia in order to bring in housing to sell at as high of a price as they can get away with.
And since we don’t have the money to hire competent lawyers (half of them all are grifters), and we’d be painting a HUGE target on our backs with interests that have never given a shit about simply murdering people to further their own goals - We just stir the pot and keep letting everyone know these things so that more people start to get angry.
I don’t know where “here” is, but do you mean DDT? DEET is used in insect repellents but it’s rare to find contaminated soil with it.
Additionally, dilution is the solution to pollution. It’s really common to mix uncontaminated media into a contaminated area to make levels safer. Especially when you can’t truly clear away contamination for whatever reason, lower the relative amounts in the environment at that location is an accepted way to make it less impactful (and depending on the contaminate can made it truly safe).
I live in a golf course neighborhood that’s easily 99% white, and the EPA just released a report saying that arsenic has infiltrated the aquifer. They plan on building close to 6000 homes here soon.
The land is polluted to fuck, and there was worry about
DEETDDT in the soil because they used to spray it here; so what they did was haul in a bunch of outside soil, and mix up the topsoil layer so that the levels were ‘lower’ and then continued to build houses on it all.Even at the county level, the commissioner here is corrupt as fuck, and is working with multiple builders from Saudi Arabia in order to bring in housing to sell at as high of a price as they can get away with.
And since we don’t have the money to hire competent lawyers (half of them all are grifters), and we’d be painting a HUGE target on our backs with interests that have never given a shit about simply murdering people to further their own goals - We just stir the pot and keep letting everyone know these things so that more people start to get angry.
I don’t know where “here” is, but do you mean DDT? DEET is used in insect repellents but it’s rare to find contaminated soil with it.
Additionally, dilution is the solution to pollution. It’s really common to mix uncontaminated media into a contaminated area to make levels safer. Especially when you can’t truly clear away contamination for whatever reason, lower the relative amounts in the environment at that location is an accepted way to make it less impactful (and depending on the contaminate can made it truly safe).
Ah yeah - I was mixing up DDT/DEET. DEET is still used today, and DDT was its predecessor. I meant DDT, thanks for the correction.