Silver Valley
Community Resource Center
PROTECT YOUR COMMUNITY NOW AND FOR THE FUTURE. TEST FOR LEAD EXPOSURE.
JOIN MORE THAN 2500 PEOPLE WHO HAVE ASKED THAT THE TOXIC DUMP AT HISTORIC CATALDO MISSION BE STOPPED. PLEASE READ AND SIGN OUR PETITION ONLINE OR stop by the SVCRC office to sign it in person.
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"AS A TRIBAL MEMBER OF THE CDA TRIBE I AM THE 5TH GENERATION (OFF) OF THE TRIBAL MEMBERS THAT BUILT THE MISSION, AND GO BACK EVERY YEAR ON AUG 15. IT IS MY HOME, AND MY HEART. IF IT WAS TO BE, THAT IS THE PLACE THAT I WISH TO BE LAID TO REST."
Calvin Nomee, Coeur d'Alene Tribe
Breaking News -
May 2011 - Mission Repository has Failed.
The Coeur d'Alene River has been continuously flooding and is over flood stage now.
Those living downstream in Coeur d'Alene and Spokane are at risk of record amounts of toxic mine wate flowing into their communities.
Please see new photos on Facebook
Contact EPA and Lisa Jackson to STOP the Mission Repository
Please call Lisa Jackson at EPA and let her know that now is the time to STOP THE MISSION REPOSITORY.
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator: 202-564-4700
Jackson.Lisap@epa.gov
March 2011 -
Archaeologists question survey work that allowed repository near Old Mission
For more than three years SVCRC has inquired into issues of historical preservation and archeological requirements surrounding the toxic mine waste dump site at Cataldo Mission.
During this effort the organization was subjected to EPA and IDEQ attacks beccause of this inquiry. Now others question this as well.
THE MISSION REPOSITORY HAS FAILED
ED MOREEN, EPA REGION X, can no longer tell news reporters or affected citizens "the water is actually cleaner when it flows back into the river" referring to the January flooding and the Mission Repository!
January Flooding: Worst Coeur d’Alene Basin Contamination in Years
February 2011 - From the 2003 legal action, statement of Dick Shultz from Idaho Health and Welfare Department when he was testifying at the Idaho Medicaid lead testing US Circuit Court hearing in Boise, 2003:
Archaeologists question repository near Old Mission
"Only four studies of lead poisoning have been performed in Idaho since 1993. None of these studies were performed in response to Medicaid requirements. The studies of lead poisoning done in Idaho were done on such small numbers of participants that the findings of the studies are not viewed as valid." Support the Lead Health Project at SVCRC to change this NOW!
January 2011 - New photos of Mission Repository flooding just posted in our facebook albums.
Donate to SVCRC: Match the dollars donated by Dave Smith Motors. Help with urgently needed travel funds and other projects, including Lead Testing. Thank You Kindly to everyone who has given so generously.
Read Comments by SVCRC Board Member Ron Johnson
Read both our FACT SHEETS and ALERT on this web site as they are linked from this page. You can read our response to the misleading EPA promo on our facebook page. If you do not have the EPA promo we can send it to you if you request it from us.
"People in the Silver Valley can be proud of their action and (for) fighting back". Doris Cellarius, Sierra Club.
Lisa Jackson Call In - Join SVCRC in the fight for environmental justice. Pledge to call Lisa Jackson and for an immediate moratorium at Cataldo Mission. More information here and here
Keep the messages rolling in whenever you think of what EPA should be doing.
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator: 202-564-4700
Jackson.Lisap@epa.gov
Take back our community, speak out, stop the Old Mission Repository. Repositories are temporary waste sites, EPA has the technology to deal with the hazardous waste with permanent disposal, the Silver Valley Community Resource Center has has asked Region X to consider permanent waste disposal more than 20 different times over the years. EPA refuses to consider this very important consideration to protect future downstream damages and the health of our children and communties. Permanent waste disposal will NOT cost the cleanup jobs that were acquired as a grassroots action of SVCRC and EPA.
Mail comments to:
Dennis McLerran. Region X EPA, mclerran.dennis@epa.gov
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator: Jackson.Lisap@epa.gov, 202-564-4700
FMI: Contact the Silver Valley Community Resource Center office, 208-784-8891.
Documents are available at select local libraries and on the web at http://go.usa.gov/igD
SVCRC - Nationally recognized for leading the effort over the past 25 years to bring health and economic prosperity to the people of the Silver Valley and those included in the Bunker Hill Superfund Site.
Lead Health - Report shows continuing problems with lead screening issue in Kellogg
Recent statistics show that out of all eligible community people only 1.25% have had lead screening.
United Steel Workers International officials met to discuss issues with SVCRC members, in keeping with their Blue-Green Alliance. We extend our thanks to Leo Gerard and USW folks for extending their hand of concern.
Please save all your empty Frito-Lay bags and mail them to or drop them off at the SVCRC office.
Hi Friends,
Some of you may know that I've been doing some work for a small, grass-roots organization located in northern Idaho that has been working for 20 years on the clean up of the largest lead contamination site in the country. With very little resources, they have been able to push the clean up through while creating jobs for unemployed local miners. Their primary organizer, life-long Silver Valley resident Barbara Miller, has been awarded national recognition by the Ford Foundation for her work. Continue reading...
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