Re: Comment on Website

[william sanjour <wsanjour@lincs.net>]

Lisa,

This is outside my area of knowledge. Maybe someone on the net can help
you.

However, one thing inside my area of knowledge is the behavior of
bureaucrats.  Contrary to what you were told, the best way to get the
bureaucracy to move is to stir up the public and with them the press and
the politicians.

Bill Sanjour


lsherman@flex.net wrote:
> 
> Dear Mr. William Sanjour,
>         I find your website very informative. I am very glad that there
> are people like you with the nerve to stand up for evil and wrongdoing.
> We need more people like you.
>         I wanted to ask you if you have any information on creosote and
> or penta? What I need to know is if it has been known that these sorts
> of contaminates cause birth defects such as anencephaly (a neural tube
> defect where the baby's brain and cranial vault fail to develop). I live
> in an area where there is a high rate of this birth defect, and from all
> that I have been able to learn it is most likely that creosote plants
> could be the cause of the birth defects. I live within a two miles
> radius of two creosote sites. One is a superfund site, United Creosote,
> and has been in the clean-up phase since the 1980's. Just a few weeks
> ago it was finally cleaned up. The contamianted dirt was hauled away to
> an incinerator. They tried some sort of technology to "wash" the dirt,
> but it proved to be too time consuming and expensive. So after spending
> an excess of 50 million dollars they just dug it all up and moved it
> out. Up until about one year ago we still had a creosote plant operating
> here. In fact I am closer than the two miles to this plant. It was
> finally closed down due to back taxes that were owed. I have done
> extensive reading on the subject of creosote/penta and understand that
> these sites have been closed down all over the place back in the 1980's
> when it was found to be so dangerous. I asked the EPA why this plant was
> allowed to continue to operate and they told me that it was because
> there was no public outcry against it. I said how should the ordinary
> public know that this is such a dangerous operation, they had no answer
> for that.
>         The EPA forced the reluctant State of Texas to aid them in doing
> water and air sampling at my home. (The State had not been helpful at
> all until the EPA got involved). The only reason why the EPA got
> involved was that I read a lot of the information at our public library
> about the United Creosote Superfund site. I found a map that showed all
> the water wells within a two mile radius of the site, which they said
> could most likely be contamianted from the contaminated water from the
> United Creosote site. My well was on the map. However the EPA told me
> that they were reasonably sure that my well would not be contaminated
> from this site, as the contaminated water was moving in a different
> direction. But they told me that I had cause to be concerned about water
> contamination from the other creosote site and three landfills that are
> very close to me. They got in touch with the State and made the
> agreement to test my water and air. They tested it for many things
> including dioxins, furans, arsenic and all the other compounds used in
> creosote and penta. They also tested it for known chemical that are
> being landfilled at the landfills. It took a long time to get the test
> results back. In the end they told me that I had nothing to worry about.
> That whatever I had in my water DID NOT cause the anencephaly. I had
> other independent testing done at the same time and the results were
> quite different. In my search for answers I got to the point that I
> don't trust anyone's opinion anymore. I was mislead about a lot of
> things along the way. I was told flat out that if in fact there were
> some chemical that caused my Grandson to die from anencephaly it was
> DEFINATELY naturally occurring. I was told that it WAS NOT anything that
> some industry near to my home caused to happen. I was also told not to
> discuss this with anyone else. They  (the State) said they didn't want a
> public panic. They said that they were trying to do an environmental
> investigation in our area, and if people started to panic they would be
> flooded with phone calls and slow down the investigation.
>         I know of an area very close to here. Within 5-10 miles where
> there have been a lot of anencephalic babies born. I accidently found a
> man who works at a water testing lab that told me he was involved in
> some water testing in this neighborhood 10 years ago and that it was
> creosote contamination that was the problem there.
>         I have basically given up on finding the truth. But still I
> wonder and worry. We still live at the same place where my daughter was
> living when she conceived her anencephalic baby. She has since moved and
> now has a healthy baby boy. I firmly believe, along with many other
> parents of anencephalic babies that the fact that she moved is why she
> had a normal baby.
>         I spent a long, long time researching all of this. I finally
> stopped because it was really getting me down. The more I learned the
> harder it was to accept it all. And the harder it was to try to sort out
> the truth.
>         I would appreciate any information that you might have on this
> subject. And I wanted to tell you how much I admire you for standing up
> for what is right. I have met a few other whistleblowers along the way.
> And is very shocking to me how corrupt this world is.
> Thank you for your time,
> Lisa