August 16, 2007 - James Gillette found out last week that his home might soon be moving down the street.
Moving Gillette's mobile home, along with the 14 other homes in the Crumb Trailer Park off Burrows Road in West Winfield, is part of a proposed plan to clean up the park's poisoned soil.
The ground is contaminated with arsenic, manganese, aluminum and lead from Hiteman Leather Co. waste materials dumped at the site from the 1930s to 1950s.
Studies on the 2.5-acre park in 1996 found elevated metal levels that weren't exceeding health-based standards. Further studies in 2002 and 2006 revealed more dangerous levels.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Environmental Conservation are proposing to move the trailers to a nearby site and place a clean soil cover over the contaminated soils.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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