Re: international email list on incinerators

[Neil Tangri <ntangri@essential.org>]

Here is a question from a colleague in Japan. Please respond to me or the
list, and I will forward the message.

Thank you,

Neil Tangri

>I now handle two major environmental cases in Osaka area. One is Nose
>township's
>dioxin contamination case. In Nose, a municipal incineration facility
>which operated
>from 1988 to 1997, turned out to have contaminated the soil around the
>facility by high
>density of dioxin.
>The highest density is 52,000ng-TEQ/g from the soil near the facility.
>3million ng-TEQ/L
>of dioxin was detected from water left in a part of incinerator.
>The Ministry of Labor has investigated the blood of workers at the
>facility and the highest
>data is 800pg-TEQ/g(fat). Two workers have filed worker's compensation
>and more than 1000
>residents have filed an environmental mediation.
>The other case is an illegal dumping of incineration ashes in Hashimoto
>city and 1700pg of dioxin was detected from the soil. An environmental
>mediation was filed, and Wakayama
>prefectual government has set up a scientific committee to discuss the
>appropriate measures
>to clean up the site.
>Therefore, I need to know what kind of counter measure are taken at the
>contaminated site
>under what kind of procedure. I have rough knowledge of Super-Fund law
>but do not know
>specific cases where dioxin or other chemicals.
>Naoki Ikeda
>

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Neil TANGRI