Jerry Russell Bliss, 66 - Saint James, MO - Has Court or He spent years lobbying against casino expansion, and hes now the communications director for embattled Rep. Todd Akin. It was safe. They put up drywall in her house. It was during this period that Bliss was trucking some of the sludge to his own storage tanks where he mixed it with waste oil and sold it for dust control. She compiled a list of where Bliss and his employees collected waste and where they disposed of it. The citys mayor, Joe Capstick, didnt like the sound of PCBs, and he needed to look out for his family, so he resigned and left. Regulatory authorities became aware of the contamination in October. It remains a priority. She died less than a year later.. State officials have cited Mr. Bliss's role in the dioxin case and other pollution episodes over the last decade as reasons for denying his license. McDonnell Park, which is part of the St. Louis County Parks system, is the most recent dioxin site discovered in the metropolitan area. But at this point, I cant really discuss the alternatives. This is especially true for 2,3,7,8tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, which is the most toxic and the one found at Times Beach. This is only her second time coming to the reunion. WebJerry Russell Bliss, Age 66 aka Jerry Bliiss Current Address: ETZR Strecker Rd, Ballwin, MO Past Addresses: Eureka MO, Saint James MO +1 more Phone Number: (314) 580- JRRA +3 phones Email Address: n LITE @att.net +2 emails UNLOCK PROFILE Phone & Email (7) All Addresses (4) Family (8) Social (16) Court (5) And More Phone & Email ( 7) Three years after the horses died, dioxin was confirmed in dirt Bliss had sprayed. Dioxin, its silent, unseen. During the Depression, a lot of the people in the city moved into their homes in Times Beach to ride out the hard times, Leistner says. Leistner recalls meeting a woman the day that the EPA came to announce the buyout. Mr. Bliss contends he was not warned the dioxin wastes were hazardous and that his license has been denied unfairly because of past practices that were legal and commonplace. The EPA has refused to reveal the list of alternatives prior to the publication of its EE/CAs, but according to Ellisville city manager Jeff LaGarce, the choices will likely include a technique called thermal desorption, an unproven process that allows the waste to be detoxified on site. At the moment, shes trying to find the spot where her house used to be, but with the flower garden gone, shes just not sure. I didnt have anything to do with their money.. A venerable columnist, McClellan hedges his bets by saying Who knows? about dioxins dangers, rather than drawing any final conclusion. It was an overstatement, to be sure, but one rooted in factat least until the Great Depression. But for the average person, its still unwise to smoke four packs a day. Besides giving the site a clean bill of health without any soil testing, the DNR ignored its own warnings signals. "Only if they said, 'Sid, next week you'll have cancer,' I might worry. After the discovery of the waste a decade later, Callahan testified in St. Louis County Circuit Court that he had used a lift truck to dump drums of waste, which Bliss had picked up at local industries, on the Callahan property. Only a small portion of the residents ever made it back. But when it marks the site of one of the nations worst environmental disasters, an embroidered-jean-jacket emporium can feel a little disrespectful. Esther Hicks So do two of her granddaughters. "Until that time there was only tangential involvement by the EPA working through Missouri state government.". From publicly released EPA documents, this much is known: In the winter of 1981-1982, the DNR and EPA excavated more than 1,200 barrels of toxic waste from the Callahan property. P.O. A guard and a caution sign were posted at the entrance to town, a bridge that came across from the high side of the river, to keep people out. Bliss then mixes the dioxin with waste oil. The rabbits died. As of now, no specifics about Russel Flowers involvement in the accident have emerged on the internet. There are a lot of people I know who were exposed to the same stuff and moreand didnt., Today, the land that was once Times Beach has been turned into Route 66 State Park. After years of trying, Taylor had finally attracted the interest of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Our approach is not to destroy it, but to assure public exposure can be limited" to healthy levels. The waste was the unwanted byproduct from manufacturing the antiseptic hexachlorophene. A federal court jury July 22 found Bliss guilty of over-stating his business expenses for 1976, 1977 and 1978. Another possible alternative was eliminated in December, when the only available commercial incinerator licensed to accept dioxin-contaminated waste was shuttered in Coffeyville, Kan. "Thirty years from now we'll know more about dioxin's effect on people and it may not be as bad as we think, or it might be worse.". Essentially, Hall is asserting confidence in the clean up before it has started. Join Facebook to connect with Jerry Russell and others you may know. There are probably a lot of people who are unaware, she adds. Stelzer of the Riverfront Times. Bliss has refused to cooperate, Lafser said. Copeland didnt know it then, but he had inadvertently contributed to wiping the entire town off the map. He simply has questions, questions that he believes were left unanswered by the EPAs reluctance to be forthcoming. No one can answer the questions the people of Times Beach are asking. April 28 (UPI) -- A lost dog in Northern Ireland was found 26 days later after walking more than 40 miles to the home of his former owners. This site that was discovered over in Ellisville was completely new information, he adds. The buyers said they signed sales contracts without being told by their real-estate agents that their new homes were adjacent to a hazardous-waste site. In September 1980, Gov. Waste was tracked to the Verona plant. That was a shock., Hes a dioxin skeptic. He was 91. "His loss hurts immensely, but memories of his intellect, heart and humor will live on," the family said. But he was forced to do jail time anyway, on tax-evasion charges, since he didnt report his waste-hauling income to the IRS. She took it to the dry cleaner, but the owners refused her business. Leistner holds her own grudges. I do not believe that at all. Some were rescued in boats. It was in Illinois and it had a big fence around it. The EPA and CDC have each published massive documents detailing the many health hazards associated with it. DNR officials described the location of the dump as a ravine, filled 15 feet deep with rusty barrels. I guess Wildwood is just going to have to look at it from a credibility standpoint, says Shea. [1] [2] [3] Jerry Hicks died November 18, 2011, from cancer. The chemical companies, he has always maintained, never told him exactly what he was hauling. But eventually, it caught up with him. Leistner grew up in Valley Park and moved to Times Beach in December 1956, at age 18. Judge him as you will. In the past, Jerry has also been known as Jerry Russell Bliss and Jerry R Bliss. Of 15 confirmed dioxin sites in Missouri, five were contaminated by waste oil laced with dioxin from a southwest Missouri chemical plant for which Mr. Bliss hauled wastes in 1971. A copy of the written request obtained by the RFT shows the agency inquiry is specifically focused on the disposal of hazardous wastes generated by Monsanto and the now-defunct Wagner Electric Co. Taylor and the environmental group have until the end of the week to provide the agency with the information or be fined $25,000 a day until they comply. While explaining, in meticulous and sometimes graphic detail, all that her children have gone through, Leistner is on the verge of tears, her voice wavering. However, the EPA is expected to release its Engineering Evaluation and Cost Analysis (EE/CA) for the two projects this month. No one listened. Jerry Russell Bliss, Inc. v. Pollution Control Board, 138 Ill. App. 3d The news, on the other hand, broke on the 22nd of December, with no mention of any accident. The dispute pitted neighbors, even relatives, against one another, eroding the citys greatest asset, its family atmosphere. On Aug. 7, Taylor asked the St. Louis County Council to assist TBAG by forming a task force to independently investigate possible hazardous waste sites that may have been overlooked in the past by the EPA and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The DNR presented further evidence at the same proceeding that linked the chemical manufacturer indirectly to a 1977 incident in which a Bliss driver dumped toxic chemicals including one exclusively made by Monsanto at a site in Jefferson County. The park is nice enough. Memories of the eviction are still too emotional. Although state and federal regulatory authorities all heralded the closing of the incinerator as the end of states toxic legacy, the discovery of the new site draws into question the EPAs prior assumptions about the origins of the dioxin and other hazardous wastes that have long plagued the region. Knowing that everybody had to move, sellers in the area drove up prices. We do not have the expertise that the U.S. EPA and Missouri Department of Natural Resources have. A majority of residents realized that there were no available methods then for cleaning up dioxin, and they didnt see the point of rebuilding homes that had been destroyed by the flood anyway (especially since Times Beach had voted itself out of the National Flood Insurance Program a few years before). Citizens blame state bureaucrats for deadly delay. The words come easily, honed over decades of repetition. Donna Reed Show (TV Series Obviously I have to depend upon them to do their job and hope that we do ours.. Leistner remembers Times Beach kids being ostracized at school. Those most severely exposed get follow-up physicals. At this point in time, I have seen nothing to suggest that there may be additional sites out there, says Feild. April 28 (UPI) -- A Nebraska high school said it broke a Guinness World Record when more than 1,000 students participated in a water balloon toss event. Thats why just about every physician will tell his or her patient to stop smoking cigarettes, Schecter says. The next day, he was sure that somebody was doing it to get even with him, Leistner says. April 28 (UPI) -- An isolated private island off the coast of Scotland is for sale with an asking price of about $188,000. One of her adult sons has since contracted a lupus-like disease, says Jordan. When a driver frequently moves from team to team, hes often called a journeyman.. Evening Standard/Getty Images. Jerry Jerry Russell Bliss The residents gathered in front of a hotel in Eureka, crowding around the outdoor pool. The version that the developer presented to Wildwood is pretty vague about what happened, Shea says. But while he uses words like fraud and cover-up, there is one key difference between this man and a full-blown environmental kook: Taylor knows that there are things he doesnt know. Under crossexamination after Tuesday's testimony, Mr. Lambarth acknowledged that since Jan. 1 this year he has been working for a waste oil concern that is competing with Mr. Bliss for customers. April 28 (UPI) -- A bear stuck in a Nevada tree was rescued by wildlife officials and firefighters who tranquilized the bruin and then caught the large animal in a tarp. Its the sort of detail that might make Taylor seem like a conspiracy theorist. The lots were small, and you needed at least two to build a house. Some communities, worried that former Times Beach residents would bring dioxin with them, put up signs telling them to stay away. In Taylors view, the EPA was more interested in making Syntex legally responsible for the cleanup than exploring the full scope of the contamination. JERRY-RUSSELL BLISS, INC Those memories are particularly present today, the final Saturday of September. Nowadays, much to its chagrin, all of this tainted history falls under the jurisdiction of the city of Wildwood, which was incorporated in 1995. She had a brand-new leather jacket that had gotten dirty in the flood. She pleaded for action. Some folks arent sure its even there. Bliss, 48, who for years made his living hauling hazardous wastes and used oil from factories, has been quoted here as blaming a now-defunct pharmaceutical firm for failing to warn him of the dangers in its waste. Ive got letters from EPA and DNR also stating that everything is cool on the property. But Wurm says he doesnt want to discuss the project in detail, fearing his plans will be misrepresented. Rock 'n' roll's first great wild man, Jerry Lee Lewis the singer and pianist nicknamed "The Killer" has died. She lived there for a quarter century, until December 1982, at which point the town was thrown into what she calls the time of flood and dioxin. She has spent the past quarter century telling the Times Beach story. By the time he answered the knock, the harried courier had already departed, leaving an unexpected Federal Express packet on his threshold. April 28 (UPI) -- A British piercing enthusiast broke his own Guinness World Record when the number of flesh tunnels in his face increased to 17. Wurm is referring to Tom Uhlenbrock, who first reported the Wildwood development plans in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 11. Yet we know there are people who are not sensitive, because of their lucky genetics. She was one of a dozen witnesses called so far this week by attorneys for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, which has denied Jerry Russell Bliss Inc., Mr. Bliss's concern, the hazardous waste transporter license it needs to stay in business. When I talked with the (St. Louis) Post-Dispatch, I got misquoted. 1 killed in shooting at Massachusetts house party, Heavy shelling in Kherson, Kharkiv destroys residences, Cuba postpones International Workers' Day parade over fuel shortages, Democrats, Republicans remain split on debt ceiling plan. WebJERRY-RUSSELL BLISS, INC. is a Missouri Domestic Gen. Business - For-Profit filed on November 15, 1978. S.C. woman wins $300,000 lottery prize -- her second jackpot in 3 years. Russell, Jerry W., Saturday, February 11, 2012. McClellan: Dioxin and drug mules I remember this old guy he used to give us stuff. When a Missouri assistant attorney general asked the waste hauler in 1977 to identify his top customers, the first words out of Bliss mouth were, Oh, I would say Monsanto.. Ive been looking for answers, and I dont know what direction to go in, says Jordan, who was belatedly informed by a neighbor of an EPA informational meeting held on March 12. Now the fledgling city faces a dilemma: Two developers are asking for zoning variances so that they can wedge dozens of high-priced houses on either side of Strecker Road on parcels of land that were once part of the Bliss-Ellisville hazardous-waste site. Ironically, one of the sources of dioxin is incineration itself. Sid Hammer, who was chairman of the board of aldermen, became acting mayor, while Leistner became acting chairwoman. Meanwhile, Faron Rowden, a beefy bartender, is among 300 locals fed up with waiting for answers. The courts appraisals came back even lower than the EPAs offers, and the other benefits were no longer available. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. When he resigned, Leistner became acting mayor. By Phil McCausland. More than a decade later, erosion spread dioxin-laced fill dirt to a nearby subdivision and contaminated a creek. A Town, a Flood, and Superfund: Looking Back at the Times Tangled Up in Wildwood Hes been sued repeatedly. EPA considers itself blameless. Remember Times Beach: The Dioxin Disaster, 30 Years Times Beach was on her list, she said. If you looked up, there it was, Copeland says, still giggling about it 40 years later. Those who do return, however, are eager to have the EPA check their homes for dioxin and fill out CDC health questionnaires as part of a $500,000 statewide study of potential dioxin victims. Remedial action is mandated by the EPA in a residential setting at one ppb or higher. Only Bliss actually knows how much he knew about what he was hauling. The environmental activist, who is too young to remember the Selective Service System, and too poor to be concerned about the Internal Revenue Service, had, nevertheless, received a frightening message from a federal agency. The EPA, Monsanto, and the Cover Up I think its unfair, unjust All my friends say that I was a scapegoat.. But even in the heat of election season, Taylor is happy to carve out a couple of hours to make his case about Times Beach and the problems he perceives with the cleanup. They received modest settlements, but the victims were required to absolve the defendants of any future liability. Truckers crudely called him the hemorrhoid with the Polaroid. He wrote ticket after ticket. The announcement of the new site came only weeks after the EPA and DNR had completed their controversial incineration project at April 27 (UPI) -- A Sydney, Australia, woman is trying to solve a mystery after hundreds of dollars' worth of drinks, including Gatorade, Powerade, Coke and Fanta started showing up at her home. Insects fell from the air. For instance, because some of the toxins at Times Beach were similar to those in Agent Orange, he says, the government might have had an interest in minimizing the Times Beach investigation, to limit its own culpability in Vietnam. Her house had been ravaged. During the past few months, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken more than 2,000 soil samples from the park, which is located near the North St. Louis County municipality of St. Ann. It would be better to err on the side of safety, says Shea, than risk exposing people to more hazardous waste by digging foundations on the Callahan property and inadvertently excavating a heretofore undetected layer of toxic waste. first published in the Riverfront Times (St. Louis), March 25, 1998 Although Mr. Lambarth was subpoenaed as a witness for the state, his testimony tended to support Mr. Bliss's contention that at the time he picked up the dioxin wastes, he did not know they were hazardous. It was beautiful., Yes. Much to the chagrin of longtime residents, a trailer park opened, followed by a second one. Those who returned were instructed to leave, and anyone who hadnt was told to stay away. If the city allows W.J. Jerry As these families were being made their offers, they were taking the money and running, Leistner says. But this blue-collar town beneath gray granite bluffs on the muddy Meramec River has become a symbol of a national trauma no one seems to know how to control. Teachers made them sit at the front of class, away from the rest of the students, in case they were contagious. Yet the poisoning of Times Beach, and 14 other dioxin sites in Missouri and six in Illinois, happened long before that, a deadly legacy by industry and government from an era when there were no comprehensive laws to protect the public from dangers that few had imagined. no. The dioxin has been traced to six tanker truckloads of waste Bliss picked up in 1971 from the now-defunct Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Co. in Verona, Mo. "It's literally like trying to piece together a cold trail," said Bill Hedeman, director of EPA's hazardous waste cleanup program. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began warning people in low-lying areas that a severe flood was coming. Theyve dragged me through the courts and I dont think theyre ever gonna quit, he told CNN. Bliss son still lives on a Strecker Road property once owned by his father, from which the EPA only a few years ago finally removed more than 900 Dioxin concentrations of one part per billion are considered hazardous. A part-owner of a stable where 62 horses died after dioxin-tainted oil was sprayed testified today before the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Commssion that the man who sprayed the oil had told her it contained a special fly-killing ingredient. Over several weeks, 11 cats and four dogs dropped dead nearby. The contaminated soil is being stored in a pile at the site and covered with a tarp. Motorcycle Safety Course Sacramento, Hamilton High School Marching Band, Mugshots Dallas, Tx, 11999 National Rd Sw, Etna, Oh 43062 Phone Number, Articles I
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Jerry Lewis is, in spite of it all, still alive. Within a couple of days, cats, dogs, and birds in the vicinity began to drop dead. The DNR investigation of Terre Du Lac in the spring of 1983, however, does not appear to have been as thorough as the EPA now claims. Nebraska students toss water balloons for Guinness World Record. February 13, 2022 1 Min Read. The younger Bliss is appealing the denial of his request for a hauling permit from the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Commission. (He declined to comment for this story.) Despite evidence of erosion, the EPAs investigation concluded that the fill area of the Callahan subsite was not contaminated (and) that the original objectives of the remedial action had either been achieved through natural processes, or were no longer considered necessary due to the preference expressed by the site owner., Aside from groundwater contamination, the most serious threat to human health posed by the contamination at the Callahan site was airborne migration, according to the EPA. By its order dated August 7, 1987, this Court found the NEPACCO defendants, IPC, Russell Bliss and Jerry-Russell Bliss, Inc. jointly and severally liable "Is it in the houses?" To say that dioxin has never caused anythingI saw it wipe out a whole community, she says. The bank that stood between the town and the river was steep and tall. After dealing with the revelatory shock, the stress, the mysterious health issues, and the anger from all sides, yes, Marilyn Leistner would like you to remember Times Beach. Hazardous materials have been identified in 17 waste disposal locations on the site. Steve Taylor (at left) never lived in Times Beach, but he did spend time at one of the horse farms where Bliss sprayed. The only request: wash down the trailers first. Jerry Russell Bliss, 66 - Saint James, MO - Has Court or He spent years lobbying against casino expansion, and hes now the communications director for embattled Rep. Todd Akin. It was safe. They put up drywall in her house. It was during this period that Bliss was trucking some of the sludge to his own storage tanks where he mixed it with waste oil and sold it for dust control. She compiled a list of where Bliss and his employees collected waste and where they disposed of it. The citys mayor, Joe Capstick, didnt like the sound of PCBs, and he needed to look out for his family, so he resigned and left. Regulatory authorities became aware of the contamination in October. It remains a priority. She died less than a year later.. State officials have cited Mr. Bliss's role in the dioxin case and other pollution episodes over the last decade as reasons for denying his license. McDonnell Park, which is part of the St. Louis County Parks system, is the most recent dioxin site discovered in the metropolitan area. But at this point, I cant really discuss the alternatives. This is especially true for 2,3,7,8tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, which is the most toxic and the one found at Times Beach. This is only her second time coming to the reunion. WebJerry Russell Bliss, Age 66 aka Jerry Bliiss Current Address: ETZR Strecker Rd, Ballwin, MO Past Addresses: Eureka MO, Saint James MO +1 more Phone Number: (314) 580- JRRA +3 phones Email Address: n LITE @att.net +2 emails UNLOCK PROFILE Phone & Email (7) All Addresses (4) Family (8) Social (16) Court (5) And More Phone & Email ( 7) Three years after the horses died, dioxin was confirmed in dirt Bliss had sprayed. Dioxin, its silent, unseen. During the Depression, a lot of the people in the city moved into their homes in Times Beach to ride out the hard times, Leistner says. Leistner recalls meeting a woman the day that the EPA came to announce the buyout. Mr. Bliss contends he was not warned the dioxin wastes were hazardous and that his license has been denied unfairly because of past practices that were legal and commonplace. The EPA has refused to reveal the list of alternatives prior to the publication of its EE/CAs, but according to Ellisville city manager Jeff LaGarce, the choices will likely include a technique called thermal desorption, an unproven process that allows the waste to be detoxified on site. At the moment, shes trying to find the spot where her house used to be, but with the flower garden gone, shes just not sure. I didnt have anything to do with their money.. A venerable columnist, McClellan hedges his bets by saying Who knows? about dioxins dangers, rather than drawing any final conclusion. It was an overstatement, to be sure, but one rooted in factat least until the Great Depression. But for the average person, its still unwise to smoke four packs a day. Besides giving the site a clean bill of health without any soil testing, the DNR ignored its own warnings signals. "Only if they said, 'Sid, next week you'll have cancer,' I might worry. After the discovery of the waste a decade later, Callahan testified in St. Louis County Circuit Court that he had used a lift truck to dump drums of waste, which Bliss had picked up at local industries, on the Callahan property. Only a small portion of the residents ever made it back. But when it marks the site of one of the nations worst environmental disasters, an embroidered-jean-jacket emporium can feel a little disrespectful. Esther Hicks So do two of her granddaughters. "Until that time there was only tangential involvement by the EPA working through Missouri state government.". From publicly released EPA documents, this much is known: In the winter of 1981-1982, the DNR and EPA excavated more than 1,200 barrels of toxic waste from the Callahan property. P.O. A guard and a caution sign were posted at the entrance to town, a bridge that came across from the high side of the river, to keep people out. Bliss then mixes the dioxin with waste oil. The rabbits died. As of now, no specifics about Russel Flowers involvement in the accident have emerged on the internet. There are a lot of people I know who were exposed to the same stuff and moreand didnt., Today, the land that was once Times Beach has been turned into Route 66 State Park. After years of trying, Taylor had finally attracted the interest of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Our approach is not to destroy it, but to assure public exposure can be limited" to healthy levels. The waste was the unwanted byproduct from manufacturing the antiseptic hexachlorophene. A federal court jury July 22 found Bliss guilty of over-stating his business expenses for 1976, 1977 and 1978. Another possible alternative was eliminated in December, when the only available commercial incinerator licensed to accept dioxin-contaminated waste was shuttered in Coffeyville, Kan. "Thirty years from now we'll know more about dioxin's effect on people and it may not be as bad as we think, or it might be worse.". Essentially, Hall is asserting confidence in the clean up before it has started. Join Facebook to connect with Jerry Russell and others you may know. There are probably a lot of people who are unaware, she adds. Stelzer of the Riverfront Times. Bliss has refused to cooperate, Lafser said. Copeland didnt know it then, but he had inadvertently contributed to wiping the entire town off the map. He simply has questions, questions that he believes were left unanswered by the EPAs reluctance to be forthcoming. No one can answer the questions the people of Times Beach are asking. April 28 (UPI) -- A lost dog in Northern Ireland was found 26 days later after walking more than 40 miles to the home of his former owners. This site that was discovered over in Ellisville was completely new information, he adds. The buyers said they signed sales contracts without being told by their real-estate agents that their new homes were adjacent to a hazardous-waste site. In September 1980, Gov. Waste was tracked to the Verona plant. That was a shock., Hes a dioxin skeptic. He was 91. "His loss hurts immensely, but memories of his intellect, heart and humor will live on," the family said. But he was forced to do jail time anyway, on tax-evasion charges, since he didnt report his waste-hauling income to the IRS. She took it to the dry cleaner, but the owners refused her business. Leistner holds her own grudges. I do not believe that at all. Some were rescued in boats. It was in Illinois and it had a big fence around it. The EPA and CDC have each published massive documents detailing the many health hazards associated with it. DNR officials described the location of the dump as a ravine, filled 15 feet deep with rusty barrels. I guess Wildwood is just going to have to look at it from a credibility standpoint, says Shea. [1] [2] [3] Jerry Hicks died November 18, 2011, from cancer. The chemical companies, he has always maintained, never told him exactly what he was hauling. But eventually, it caught up with him. Leistner grew up in Valley Park and moved to Times Beach in December 1956, at age 18. Judge him as you will. In the past, Jerry has also been known as Jerry Russell Bliss and Jerry R Bliss. Of 15 confirmed dioxin sites in Missouri, five were contaminated by waste oil laced with dioxin from a southwest Missouri chemical plant for which Mr. Bliss hauled wastes in 1971. A copy of the written request obtained by the RFT shows the agency inquiry is specifically focused on the disposal of hazardous wastes generated by Monsanto and the now-defunct Wagner Electric Co. Taylor and the environmental group have until the end of the week to provide the agency with the information or be fined $25,000 a day until they comply. While explaining, in meticulous and sometimes graphic detail, all that her children have gone through, Leistner is on the verge of tears, her voice wavering. However, the EPA is expected to release its Engineering Evaluation and Cost Analysis (EE/CA) for the two projects this month. No one listened. Jerry Russell Bliss, Inc. v. Pollution Control Board, 138 Ill. App. 3d The news, on the other hand, broke on the 22nd of December, with no mention of any accident. The dispute pitted neighbors, even relatives, against one another, eroding the citys greatest asset, its family atmosphere. On Aug. 7, Taylor asked the St. Louis County Council to assist TBAG by forming a task force to independently investigate possible hazardous waste sites that may have been overlooked in the past by the EPA and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The DNR presented further evidence at the same proceeding that linked the chemical manufacturer indirectly to a 1977 incident in which a Bliss driver dumped toxic chemicals including one exclusively made by Monsanto at a site in Jefferson County. The park is nice enough. Memories of the eviction are still too emotional. Although state and federal regulatory authorities all heralded the closing of the incinerator as the end of states toxic legacy, the discovery of the new site draws into question the EPAs prior assumptions about the origins of the dioxin and other hazardous wastes that have long plagued the region. Knowing that everybody had to move, sellers in the area drove up prices. We do not have the expertise that the U.S. EPA and Missouri Department of Natural Resources have. A majority of residents realized that there were no available methods then for cleaning up dioxin, and they didnt see the point of rebuilding homes that had been destroyed by the flood anyway (especially since Times Beach had voted itself out of the National Flood Insurance Program a few years before). Citizens blame state bureaucrats for deadly delay. The words come easily, honed over decades of repetition. Donna Reed Show (TV Series Obviously I have to depend upon them to do their job and hope that we do ours.. Leistner remembers Times Beach kids being ostracized at school. Those most severely exposed get follow-up physicals. At this point in time, I have seen nothing to suggest that there may be additional sites out there, says Feild. April 28 (UPI) -- A Nebraska high school said it broke a Guinness World Record when more than 1,000 students participated in a water balloon toss event. Thats why just about every physician will tell his or her patient to stop smoking cigarettes, Schecter says. The next day, he was sure that somebody was doing it to get even with him, Leistner says. April 28 (UPI) -- An isolated private island off the coast of Scotland is for sale with an asking price of about $188,000. One of her adult sons has since contracted a lupus-like disease, says Jordan. When a driver frequently moves from team to team, hes often called a journeyman.. Evening Standard/Getty Images. Jerry Jerry Russell Bliss The residents gathered in front of a hotel in Eureka, crowding around the outdoor pool. The version that the developer presented to Wildwood is pretty vague about what happened, Shea says. But while he uses words like fraud and cover-up, there is one key difference between this man and a full-blown environmental kook: Taylor knows that there are things he doesnt know. Under crossexamination after Tuesday's testimony, Mr. Lambarth acknowledged that since Jan. 1 this year he has been working for a waste oil concern that is competing with Mr. Bliss for customers. April 28 (UPI) -- A bear stuck in a Nevada tree was rescued by wildlife officials and firefighters who tranquilized the bruin and then caught the large animal in a tarp. Its the sort of detail that might make Taylor seem like a conspiracy theorist. The lots were small, and you needed at least two to build a house. Some communities, worried that former Times Beach residents would bring dioxin with them, put up signs telling them to stay away. In Taylors view, the EPA was more interested in making Syntex legally responsible for the cleanup than exploring the full scope of the contamination. JERRY-RUSSELL BLISS, INC Those memories are particularly present today, the final Saturday of September. Nowadays, much to its chagrin, all of this tainted history falls under the jurisdiction of the city of Wildwood, which was incorporated in 1995. She had a brand-new leather jacket that had gotten dirty in the flood. She pleaded for action. Some folks arent sure its even there. Bliss, 48, who for years made his living hauling hazardous wastes and used oil from factories, has been quoted here as blaming a now-defunct pharmaceutical firm for failing to warn him of the dangers in its waste. Ive got letters from EPA and DNR also stating that everything is cool on the property. But Wurm says he doesnt want to discuss the project in detail, fearing his plans will be misrepresented. Rock 'n' roll's first great wild man, Jerry Lee Lewis the singer and pianist nicknamed "The Killer" has died. She lived there for a quarter century, until December 1982, at which point the town was thrown into what she calls the time of flood and dioxin. She has spent the past quarter century telling the Times Beach story. By the time he answered the knock, the harried courier had already departed, leaving an unexpected Federal Express packet on his threshold. April 28 (UPI) -- A British piercing enthusiast broke his own Guinness World Record when the number of flesh tunnels in his face increased to 17. Wurm is referring to Tom Uhlenbrock, who first reported the Wildwood development plans in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 11. Yet we know there are people who are not sensitive, because of their lucky genetics. She was one of a dozen witnesses called so far this week by attorneys for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, which has denied Jerry Russell Bliss Inc., Mr. Bliss's concern, the hazardous waste transporter license it needs to stay in business. When I talked with the (St. Louis) Post-Dispatch, I got misquoted. 1 killed in shooting at Massachusetts house party, Heavy shelling in Kherson, Kharkiv destroys residences, Cuba postpones International Workers' Day parade over fuel shortages, Democrats, Republicans remain split on debt ceiling plan. WebJERRY-RUSSELL BLISS, INC. is a Missouri Domestic Gen. Business - For-Profit filed on November 15, 1978. S.C. woman wins $300,000 lottery prize -- her second jackpot in 3 years. Russell, Jerry W., Saturday, February 11, 2012. McClellan: Dioxin and drug mules I remember this old guy he used to give us stuff. When a Missouri assistant attorney general asked the waste hauler in 1977 to identify his top customers, the first words out of Bliss mouth were, Oh, I would say Monsanto.. Ive been looking for answers, and I dont know what direction to go in, says Jordan, who was belatedly informed by a neighbor of an EPA informational meeting held on March 12. Now the fledgling city faces a dilemma: Two developers are asking for zoning variances so that they can wedge dozens of high-priced houses on either side of Strecker Road on parcels of land that were once part of the Bliss-Ellisville hazardous-waste site. Ironically, one of the sources of dioxin is incineration itself. Sid Hammer, who was chairman of the board of aldermen, became acting mayor, while Leistner became acting chairwoman. Meanwhile, Faron Rowden, a beefy bartender, is among 300 locals fed up with waiting for answers. The courts appraisals came back even lower than the EPAs offers, and the other benefits were no longer available. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. When he resigned, Leistner became acting mayor. By Phil McCausland. More than a decade later, erosion spread dioxin-laced fill dirt to a nearby subdivision and contaminated a creek. A Town, a Flood, and Superfund: Looking Back at the Times Tangled Up in Wildwood Hes been sued repeatedly. EPA considers itself blameless. Remember Times Beach: The Dioxin Disaster, 30 Years Times Beach was on her list, she said. If you looked up, there it was, Copeland says, still giggling about it 40 years later. Those who do return, however, are eager to have the EPA check their homes for dioxin and fill out CDC health questionnaires as part of a $500,000 statewide study of potential dioxin victims. Remedial action is mandated by the EPA in a residential setting at one ppb or higher. Only Bliss actually knows how much he knew about what he was hauling. The environmental activist, who is too young to remember the Selective Service System, and too poor to be concerned about the Internal Revenue Service, had, nevertheless, received a frightening message from a federal agency. The EPA, Monsanto, and the Cover Up I think its unfair, unjust All my friends say that I was a scapegoat.. But even in the heat of election season, Taylor is happy to carve out a couple of hours to make his case about Times Beach and the problems he perceives with the cleanup. They received modest settlements, but the victims were required to absolve the defendants of any future liability. Truckers crudely called him the hemorrhoid with the Polaroid. He wrote ticket after ticket. The announcement of the new site came only weeks after the EPA and DNR had completed their controversial incineration project at April 27 (UPI) -- A Sydney, Australia, woman is trying to solve a mystery after hundreds of dollars' worth of drinks, including Gatorade, Powerade, Coke and Fanta started showing up at her home. Insects fell from the air. For instance, because some of the toxins at Times Beach were similar to those in Agent Orange, he says, the government might have had an interest in minimizing the Times Beach investigation, to limit its own culpability in Vietnam. Her house had been ravaged. During the past few months, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken more than 2,000 soil samples from the park, which is located near the North St. Louis County municipality of St. Ann. It would be better to err on the side of safety, says Shea, than risk exposing people to more hazardous waste by digging foundations on the Callahan property and inadvertently excavating a heretofore undetected layer of toxic waste. first published in the Riverfront Times (St. Louis), March 25, 1998 Although Mr. Lambarth was subpoenaed as a witness for the state, his testimony tended to support Mr. Bliss's contention that at the time he picked up the dioxin wastes, he did not know they were hazardous. It was beautiful., Yes. Much to the chagrin of longtime residents, a trailer park opened, followed by a second one. Those who returned were instructed to leave, and anyone who hadnt was told to stay away. If the city allows W.J. Jerry As these families were being made their offers, they were taking the money and running, Leistner says. But this blue-collar town beneath gray granite bluffs on the muddy Meramec River has become a symbol of a national trauma no one seems to know how to control. Teachers made them sit at the front of class, away from the rest of the students, in case they were contagious. Yet the poisoning of Times Beach, and 14 other dioxin sites in Missouri and six in Illinois, happened long before that, a deadly legacy by industry and government from an era when there were no comprehensive laws to protect the public from dangers that few had imagined. no. The dioxin has been traced to six tanker truckloads of waste Bliss picked up in 1971 from the now-defunct Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Co. in Verona, Mo. "It's literally like trying to piece together a cold trail," said Bill Hedeman, director of EPA's hazardous waste cleanup program. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began warning people in low-lying areas that a severe flood was coming. Theyve dragged me through the courts and I dont think theyre ever gonna quit, he told CNN. Bliss son still lives on a Strecker Road property once owned by his father, from which the EPA only a few years ago finally removed more than 900 Dioxin concentrations of one part per billion are considered hazardous. A part-owner of a stable where 62 horses died after dioxin-tainted oil was sprayed testified today before the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Commssion that the man who sprayed the oil had told her it contained a special fly-killing ingredient. Over several weeks, 11 cats and four dogs dropped dead nearby. The contaminated soil is being stored in a pile at the site and covered with a tarp.

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