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Published on: 12/1/2006
Last Visited: 12/28/2007
The proposed deal will provide no immediate community relief from contamination, and will delay clean water supplies to the community by more than a year. “This agreement is a great deal for polluters and a bad deal for people,” stated Davin Diaz, of the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice. Public comments submitted by public interest groups cited two major concerns with the proposed agreement: It does not require Goodrich to provide residents with a safe, secure supply of water while cleanup negotiations and further testing efforts continue; the deal also prevents the board from ordering Goodrich to provide a safe source of water for more than a year. Furthermore, the proposed agreement requires only more testing of contamination in the area, and recovers less than 2% of the ultimate amount of money that it will take to clean up the contamination in the region. “Despite the companies’ combined yearly re