Companies ordered to clean up toxic waste from the San Jacinto River want to stop the process.
"You don't stop and say I don't think we can clean that up because we've actually found that there's more waste," said Jackie Young Medcalf with the Texas Health & Environment Alliance. "You address the additional contamination found.". She says a recently completed sampling of the toxic dump revealed dioxin waste buried 30 feet deep in the northern portion of the site, increasing the amount for excavation by 50 percent to more than 20,000 truckloads.
"Enough is enough," said Medcalf. "EPA we need you to hold firm. The future of Galveston Bay and the surrounding environment hinges on the clean-up of this site."Dangerously exposed to hurricanes and floods, the Superfund site has already sustained serious damage from a series of storms. Experts fear a direct hit could spread Dioxin for miles inland and harshly contaminate large portions of Galveston Bay.
"I know quite a few people who have died down there from different cancers," said Moss. "I think it's all corporate greed, that they are not interested in spending the money to do it right."Waste Management shared the following statement with FOX 26: "Significant new information that was not available at the time the remedy was originally selected by USEPA has come to light as part of the remedial design investigations.
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