Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Hazardous chemical found in northwest Missouri soil

July 1, 2009 - Environmental investigators went looking for hazardous chromium 6 where it shouldn’t be — in northwest Missouri farm soil — and they found it.

Indeed, questions linger in a controversy that for several years has consumed the Cameron area, where residents fear that something has been causing brain tumors.

A new suspect emerged in April when a lawsuit was filed claiming that a St. Joseph tannery had spread waste sludge containing chromium 6, a dangerous chemical, on farmland.

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