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From: "Alex Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Army Toxin Cover-Up in Portland
Date: Sunday, July 30, 2000 11:57 PM
L.A. Times Web Site
Sunday, July 30, 2000
Workers Accuse Army of Cover-Up
By TARA BURGHART, Associated Press Writer
PORTLAND, Ore.--Eighteen men who were sickened last year while building
an incinerator at the Umatilla Chemical Depot are accusing the Army of
hiding leaks of highly toxic nerve and mustard agents on the day of the
incident.
Their lawyer, James E. McCandlish, said he wants an injunction to halt
construction of the incinerator in eastern Oregon near Hermiston until
certain safety protections are in place.
He plans to file a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland
asking for the injunction and seeking compensation and damages for his
clients, some of whom can no longer work, he said.
The Army has been storing chemical agents at the depot since 1962, and
says it has never had a release that threatened the health of employees, the
public or the environment.
Mary Binder, an Army spokeswoman, said several agencies, including the
Army, the state, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, had
concluded that chemical agents stored at the depot did not cause the
workers' sickness.
"No one who has looked at that data, who is trained to interpret that
data, has concluded that the chemical agents stored at depot were involved
in the Sept. 15 incident," Binder said.
Built during the Cold War, the Umatilla depot contains more than 3,000
tons of deadly nerve and mustard agents, or about 11 percent of the nation's
chemical-weapons stockpile. They are to be destroyed after completion of the
incinerator, scheduled for October 2001.
The depot has been hit by problems in the last year.
On Dec. 30, 1999, a system built to broadcast warnings of an emergency
at the depot sent out a false alarm. Not only was there no leak, but the
warnings -blared out through loudspeakers -told people in Spanish to get
indoors, but not in English.
Also, there were at least 11 bomb threats called in over two months
earlier this year, temporarily halting work on the incinerator.
The 18 workers represented by McCandlish were among 34 who were
overcome by fumes on Sept. 15, he said. They work for a company contracted
by the Army to build the incinerator.
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