Letter: St. Augustine guilty of pollution crimes?
Edwin L. Bricker; Olympia, Washington
Publication Date: 07/06/06
Editor: As a long-time environmental regulator for the state of Washington, I know from viewing Florida Department of Environmental Protection photographs that the city of St. Augustine and its officials possibly could be prosecuted for environmental crimes.
City managers must take personal responsibility.
It is mind-boggling to imagine what city officials were thinking when they took the contents of St. Augustine's old illegal dump and deposited it into the Old City Reservoir.
They owe you answers.
Ed Slavin represented me in my whistle-blower cases against two Department of Energy contractors, Westinghouse Hanford Company and Rockwell International. They involved retaliation against me for reporting nuclear safety concerns at the Hanford, Wash., nuclear weapons plants; the world's largest and dirtiest polluted site.
I worked undercover for Congressman John Dingell and was profiled in Ralph Nader's 1997 book, "No Contest."
Our Founding Fathers pledged "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" for liberty. I am grateful for Ed Slavin's work in my community and in yours.
If Ed had not reported the city of St. Augustine's immoral, illegal pollution, there is no telling how much damage might have been done to your aquifer and groundwater.
I hope that the good people of St. Augustine will rise up in righteous wrath, working to change their government to protect your beautiful environment.
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