Day care held in toxic factory building

[proud2BlibKansan]

The EPA and N.J. DEP were long aware of the problem, but Franklin Township issued the center a permit in 2004.
By SAM WOOD and JAN HEFLER
The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA – For almost two decades, local, state and federal officials knew a former mercury thermometer factory in Gloucester County was too polluted for human occupancy, but a string of miscommunications and government inaction still allowed a day-care center to open there.

Even after state environmental officials saw that Kiddie Kollege had opened despite their warnings to the township, they did nothing for more than three months as children as young as 8 months continued to play where mercury vapors registered more than 27 times acceptable limits, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

The DEP yesterday released a 19-year time line summarizing its version of the mercury-thermometer factory's transformation to a child-care center, sparking finger-pointing and angry recriminations between state and Franklin Township officials.

The DEP says it specifically warned the township in September 2003 not to issue an occupancy permit for owner Jim Sullivan Inc. to convert the abandoned building into a day-care center.

more . . .
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/15233842.htm

[ThomCat]

1. I hope Jim Sullivan is going to jail for this.

He's poisoning kids for profit. :grr:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Someone needs to go down for this

[ThomCat]

3. And every one of those kids needs to be tested

for signs of mercury poisoning, free by the town by approved this fiasco, and if they test positive then they need to appropriate healthcare.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. The article says they are being tested

and several of their lawyers have hired attorneys.

[Karenina]

5. How many "brown" kids have been there?

:shrug: If they outnumber the white ones, the latter are no more than "collateral damage."

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. can't just be about kids, can it?

you have to make sure that race is part of your consideration...sick

sP

OnEdit : The racial makeup of the township was 97.04% White, 0.83% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.87% Asian, 0.11% from other races, and 1.08% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.99% of the population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Township,_Warren_County,_New_Jersey

But I am sure it was only for the 0.83% black population that this daycare was opened... :sarcasm:

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. tell that to a Katrina survivor

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. how about stop injecting race

where race is not the issue...

But no, you can't do that, can you???

sP

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. We don't know that though, do we?

Call me a skeptic, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me to learn these kids were brown skinned.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. skeptic...

but that is worst I will call you...

If you don't know...all it is that is being added is hype...

sP

[Karenina]

13. PJM, I'm just posing a question.

Yes, it IS all about ALL OUR KIDS. Do you not get that if those affected are majority minority IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE that the children of the dominant culture are ALSO considered nothing more than "collateral damage," just as those affected by Katrina are? My children are "bi-racial" and have so many insights into this Schweinerei as they are BOTH fluent in JAPANESE. I must say I'm a bit taken aback by your post.

I thank you for your effort to CM me.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. good point

[ProdigalJunkMail]

10. no it is not...

it is purely speculative and 100% designed to inflame...

sP

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Do you honestly believe that Katrina surivors would have been ignored if

they were all white? Face it, racism is alive and well in the good ole USA. To ignore that fact is wrong.