Silver Valley
Community Resource Center
LEAD AWARENESS:
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.
BE INFORMED: Read FACT SHEET 2010
PLEASE READ AND SIGN OUR PETITION ONLINE
OR stop by the SVCRC office to sign it in person.
ALERT
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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 -
Thank you to everyone who has taken time to email or call Lisa Jackson at EPA today. Keep the messages rolling in whenever you think of what EPA should be doing.
Lisa Jackson Call In Day August 31 - Join SVCRC in the fight for environmental justice. Pledge to call Lisa Jackson and for an immediate moratorium at Cataldo. More information here and here
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator: Jackson.Lisa@epa.gov, 202-564-4700
EPA Extends Comment Period to November 23 -
VICTORY!! for the affected citizens of the Bunker Hill Superfund site.
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 refused 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 NOW and by November 23 to:
Dennis McLerran, mclerran.dennis@epa.gov
Congressman Walt Minnick: Shelley.Landry@mail.house.gov, 208-667-0127
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator: Jackson.Lisa@epa.gov, 202-564-4711
FMI: Contact the Silver Valley Community Resource Center office, 208-784-8891.
Or call toll-free at 1-800-424-4372
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
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.
January 15, 2010: Silver Valley Affected Citizens Raises Questions with Hastened Mining Cleanup News
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... |
