Please attend the Thursday August 3 meeting in Green Bay and and show your concern over the toxic PCB contamination of the sediments of the Fox River in Northeast Wisconsin (this affects all of Lake Michigan - a four state area).

The EPA and DNR are jointly holding the public meeting to explain the clean-up action for the PCB hotspot called "56/57."  This was the disastrous dredging demonstration project undertaken last fall which left 3 acres of PCB hazardous wastes exposed on the river bottom next to Fort James Corp. in Green Bay.  The demonstration project began too late in the fall and used the wrong equipment.

We believe this disaster was deliberately set up by the polluters to make dredging look too risky, to save the polluters from having to dredge other areas of the river.  (One of the contractors recently issued a press release saying they also believed the project was designed to fail.)  The demo was supposedly a cooperative project between DNR and the Fox River Group (7 paper companies who polluted the river) --- but the companies controlled most aspects of the project.

In May, the federal EPA stepped in (over DNR objections) to arrange a consent decree with Fort James Corporation, forcing them to complete the cleanup, starting in late August or early September.

The meeting and hearing will be Thursday, August 3, at 7:00 p.m. at the Brown County Library, Lower Level, 515 Pine Street, downtown Green Bay.

This is a great chance to ask tough questions about DNR's disastrous deal-making with the paper mills.  The final proposed comprehensive river cleanup plan is due out for comment this coming fall.

For more information, contact Rebecca Leighton Katers.