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Personally I think they should just leave it and let nature solve the problem. However, that would result in a lot more parasitic leftist retards than there are now. Hmm, must rethink that.

Work is underway to clean up a chemical present in an old landfill in Northern Virginia that can lead to a central nervous system condition, a diagnosis the congresswoman who represents the area had been diagnosed with.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday celebrated $22 million in funding from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that will go toward cleaning up the Hidden Lane Landfill in Loudoun County known as a Superfund site, a
designation identifying heavily polluted areas.

According to the EPA, the 25-acre site was a privately owned landfill north of Route 7 between the Broad Run Farms and Countryside communities adjacent to a floodplain of the Potomac River. The landfill opened in 1971 to accept solid and construction
waste, discarded appliances and more before the county closed it down in 1984 by court order, issued the year before.

About five years after the closure, the degreasing solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE, was found in the wells that supplied water to homes in the Broad Run Farms subdivision. The site was added to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List in 2008.

“[TCE] is an acute and long term hazard,” said Adam Ortiz, mid-Atlantic regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “In a site like this, with the concentrations that we found, it set off alarm bells. This is real stuff,
particularly for pregnant mothers.”

The TCE chemical can be ingested through the air or drinking water. Related health issues include heart problems, numbness and Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s shares similarities with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare neurological
disorder that U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Loudoun, in September revealed she has been diagnosed with and is why she won’t seek reelection to her position. Wexton had initially been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, she said in her September statement.

Following a speech in the U.S. House floor using a text-to-speech assistive technology earlier this month because of the condition — the first time a member of Congress has used it to deliver a floor speech — Wexton spoke using the same method at
Tuesday’s announcement.

“One study of the water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina found that Marine Corps veterans who were exposed to water contaminated with TCE were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than Marine Corps veterans who were not exposed to the
chemical,” said Wexton, who also submitted a letter in support of the EPA’s proposed rule to regulate TCE , which is still used for cleaning. “I’ve seen firsthand how Parkinson’s and related diseases like my PSP can be devastating for
individuals, their families, and the communities around them.”

https://virginiamercury.com/2024/05/17/old-landfill-in-loudoun-county-being-cleaned-up-by-federal-government/

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