May 26, 2009- No one wants to own the hazardous waste-soaked Hassan Barrel site. The defunct company’s Summer Street location and several neighboring properties weren’t sold last fall when Allen County conducted its tax sale to collect delinquent taxes.
The $20,000 in back taxes isn’t worth the risk of helping to pay to clean up the property, said Dave Fuller, Allen County building commissioner. Federal officials have said employees stored barrels of caustic chemicals in sheds and trailers and eventually dumped the waste into huge trash bins and open pits because the cost of disposing the waste grew too high over the years. But what they were dumping was a toxic brew of paint waste, volatile chemicals such as butanone, ethyl benzene and toluene and heavy metals such as cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury. The chemicals can cause health problems including cancer, kidney and liver damage and lung problems.
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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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