CATCH Citizens Against Toxic Chemical Hazards Presents

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CATCH

Citizens Against

Toxic Chemical Hazards

Presents

Reasons to Stop a Chemical Plant in Sumner

• Proposed Site is in the middle of homes

• Quarter of a million gallons of chemicals

• Too many things to go wrong

• Too many people nearby

• Smoke gets trapped in Valley

• Volcano Hazard Area

• No Warning System for Chemical Spill

• Etc,

The Proposed Site

Located on Traffic and Zehnder

How Big will the Tanks be?

Enough to Hold …

250,000 Gallons

Of Chemicals

What Can Go Wrong?

Anything and Everything !!!

How Many People Live Nearby ?

In a mile and a half radius there lives 20,000 people from 3 different cities plus county.

10,000 in Nearby Hills

10,000 people in the Valley

Valleys Also Traps in Air

Even Toxic Vapor

Clouds from Chemical Plants

What About the Volcano?

We are in a Lahar Zone.

Not all lahars are large scale events.

Our Volcano Has a Warning System

Where is the Accidental Chemical ReleaseWarning System?

There isn’t one availableThere isn’t one available

Never will be

If there is an Accidental Chemical Release,

And the E P A says

there almost certainly will be one

How will we send out the How will we send out the warning to evacuate or warning to evacuate or

diedie

This is an oil fire.

Emergency workers know exactly what to do

for an oil fire

This Chemical leak or fire could be one of several dozen chemicals

If you don’t know what chemical it is or which protocol to use, you don’t do anything. Too dangerous.

Nobody deals with a chemical fire. You evacuate and get the hell out.

This recent Chemical fire was in Detroit

•Thousand of people were evacuated from homes and businesses

•It took days to return

•Black toxic ash rained down upon the city

•Residents where told not to touch it, even though it was everywhere

This recent Chemical fire was in Detroit

•No resident or business got paid damages

•Mysterious illnesses are just starting

•Other accidental chemical releases have resulted in deaths.

•Do we want this for Sumner?

Let’s Stop This Monster Before It Gets Started

But How Do We Stop It?

Here is the plan

(according to a community lawyer we’ve contacted)•We need money ( $ 20,000 )

•We need scientific evidence

•We need to Hire our own Environmental Specialist

•There is enough flaws with the Proposed Chemical Plant that with scientific evidence, we can stop this project dead, before it stops us

•There is enough flaws with the Proposed Chemical Plant that:

•with scientific evidence,

•we can stop this project dead,

•before it stops us

Here is the Here is the plan

(according to a community lawyer we’ve contacted)

Join Us

•This is a community Problem

•If we all help, we WILL win

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