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PROTECT YOUR COMMUNITY NOW AND FOR THE FUTURE
HAVE YOUR CHILDREN TESTED FOR LEAD EXPOSURE
Only 85 children received Lead Screening in 2006 and Only 82 children received Lead Screening in 2004 from the Panhandle Health District. You have the right to request this screening at any time because it is a public health initiative and this is a high risk area.
Residents of the Silver Valley take back their Community -
SVCRC has collected more than 1300 signatures from people OPPOSED to the East Mission Flats Respository. Additionally there is support from groups including CART, KEA, Center for Justice, Upper Columbia River Group, Sierra Club, the Coeur d'Alene tribe and Eastside Road District who also have gone on record opposing this location, in support of more than the 1300 area residents to date.
KREM TV reports: Toxic dump raising concerns in North Idaho ---------------------------------------------------------------- SVCRC Director, Barbara Miller, Regonized Nationally for Leadership
For more than twenty years The Silver Valley Community Resource Center has been an advocate for the residents of the area and the environment. This has often been an uphill battle, and we continue to face difficulties from those whose interest lie elsewhere.
Over this time we have advocated for and achieved a positive impact on the health and economic status of the Silver Valley communities.
~Executive Director Barbara Miller has been recognized as a Ford Foundation Scholar for her work in community activism. ~SVCRC has implepemented clean up efforts and served as a conduit for providing information to the community about cleaning up mining waste. ~SVCRC has collected over 700 signatures to halt the Mission Repository because of its effort to educate and inform people about the impact of placing a toxic waste repository in areas subject to flooding and leading to more toxicity travelling to Coeur d'Alene Lake and the Spokane River. ~SVCRC has brought about awareness of lead toxicity and the need to adequately test for lead in children. Even though this was through court action, Idaho, especially North Idaho, continues to fail to adhere to government guidelines for lead testing in children, especially those who live in low income families. ~SVCRC has advocated for economic delveopment and jobs in the community allowing residents to gain employment in the clean up activities. ~SVCRC is the only community organization in the Silver Valley that works for the benefit of all residents in its mission to serve community needs while protecting the environment and public health. Read more on the About Us page or contact us with your questions or for more information about our work.
The Bunker Hill Superfund Site is a former mining and smelting complex located in Kellogg, Idaho. This is a view of four stacks used in the smelting and refining of mined ore. The stacks were 200 feet, 202 feet, 715 feet, and 610 feet high.
HELP WANTED
Environmental activists and support in North Idaho to help with outreach and education for cleanup of one of the oldest and largest Superfund sites in the nation. Bunker Hill is a 1500 mile wide site with millions of tons of heavy metal mine waste.
