LaSalle 4th Ward former alderman has produced a 3rd video with his thoughts about Carus Chemical and the City of LaSalle after the Carus Chemical explosion and chemical fire.
“My advice to the people running for office in LaSalle next month, it applies to newbies and currently sitting aldermen as well. People have taken note of who has taken up for the residents and who has not…this isn’t a topic you can sit out because it isn’t going away no matter how badly Carus wants it to.” – Mark Schneider
TONIGHT!!!
Town Hall Meeting
6:30p, Monday, March 6
LaSalle City Hall
745 2nd St, LaSalle, IL
Sierra Club will present filter test results and discuss health effects of the metals and chemicals found in furnace filters and EPA samples.
Sierra Club has also announced they will test more filters.
Help with cost is available.
This is a community issue that involves more than just LaSalle.
Emissions from Carus’ plumes are carried by the wind throughout LaSalle, Peru and surrounding rural areas. Chemicals from the explosion also landed on homes in Dimmick.
Chemicals manufactured at Carus are now being stored at the former South Towne Mall in Ottawa, and the waste from their plant is being taken to a landfill in Ottawa, which we believe is leaching toxic chemicals and heavy metals into the Illinois River.
The chemicals and metals the Sierra Club will discuss, and were present in the filters, are recorded in EPA reports as emissions coming from Carus’ plumes.
This is a multi-community issue.
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