Outraged in Connecticut

August 14, 2007 - STRATFORD — For seven years members of the Raymark Advisory Committee sat around a table just about every month battling the federal Environmental Protection Agency over the best way to clean up toxic waste at 26 remaining contaminated properties.

Residents hardly ever showed, leaving committee members to wage the battle against creating large consolidation sites in Stratford.

But ever since the EPA started presenting potential cleanup plans to the public two weeks ago, residents started showing up — in droves.

Nearly 100 people crammed into a small room at the Birdseye Municipal Complex Tuesday night at a regular Raymark Advisory Committee meeting to voice their objections for the third time in two weeks about the prospect of digging up Raymark waste, which consists of asbestos, lead and PCBs, and hauling the materials to one major consolidation site in town.

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