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We saw only one person on todays run (the odd passing vehicle doesn’t count). Coming over the brow of a hill, I could smell a familiar pong almost 1k away. I mentioned this as we passed the lad applying creosote and he was happy to leap into a monologue extolling the perfumes and his favourites for changing times of the year. A true enthusiast - and knowledgeable. I am not sure I would be happy to be that familiar.
Creosote / Religious SS Disorder / Attention Span
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This creosote bush has obviously been enjoying the rain. She is used medicinally for snake bites, chicken pox, and menstrual cramps, but since I don't have any of those problems, I've just been enjoying her company.
She smells sooooo good.
She's pretty small for being about my age or perhaps a bit older, but like all full time desert dwellers, she knows how to conserve her resources during the 120°F summers.
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Months after elevated levels of toxic chemicals were detected outside of a Fifth Ward community center in Houston, the Environmental Protection Agency's most recent soil testing results returned safe levels.
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The Environmental Protection Agency conducted additional testing on plots of the greenspace situated behind the Julia C. Hester House after previous samples revealed levels of dioxin, a highly toxic chemical compound, that exceeded the EPA's screening levels for children. Some nearby residents expressed skepticism about the latest testing results.
Union Pacific completed its final round of soil sampling to test for toxic chemicals in Houston’s Fifth Ward and says contamination levels are "below the thresholds that pose an immediate health risk." Long-term health threats will now be assessed.
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A total of 176 properties near a contaminated rail yard site were tested for toxic chemicals. Forty-one locations were found to contain contamination levels above the EPA's screening levels, “but below the thresholds that pose an immediate health risk,” according to Union Pacific.
Some residents of Houston’s Fifth Ward, where there is ongoing soil and water testing for cancer-causing toxic chemicals, now have the opportunity to get free cancer screenings as part of a collaboration between city leaders and a nonprofit.
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The cancer screening initiative comes weeks after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its first round of soil testing results from the area, which found elevated levels of highly toxic chemical compounds at some locations.
The results of the first round of residential soil sampling in Houston's Fifth Ward have been released, and the EPA will be holding office hours Wednesday through Saturday for residents to discuss their results.
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This Wednesday through Saturday, the EPA will be holding “open office hours” for residents to discuss the soil testing results from their private properties, which are being sent to them by mail.
The Environmental Protection Agency extended a deadline for Union Pacific to collect soil samples for potential cancer-causing chemicals near a contaminated railyard in Houston's Fifth Ward.
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The contaminated railyard has been the source of contention for years after creosote, a likely human carcinogen, was discovered in nearby groundwater. Fifth Ward residents have repeatedly raised questions about abnormally high cancer rates in the area.
The EPA is finally moving to clean up a Cass Lake, MN superfund site at the former St. Regis Paper Co. location in Cass Lake, which closed in 1985, which is contaminated with creosote.
Creosote is a wood-treatment chemical that is toxic.
But what is creosote?
Creosote is made from the distillation of tar from wood or coal and is used as a wood preservative. If you have seen railroad ties and utility poles, you have seen, and smelled, wood treated with creosote.
It has been used as a wood preservative since the mid-1800s.
The EPA does not consider that creosote as a risk to the general public.
But "Creosote may pose risks to fish and invertebrates when creosote-treated wood is used in aquatic and railroad structures."
The Cass Lake community is abandoned due to creosote pollution at very high concentrations.
https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/creosote
Other sources do indicate that creosote exposure, especially prolonged contact or drinking water contaminated with creosote, can cause health impacts. The health impacts include different forms of cancer. At elevated concentrations irritation & similar are possible.
Union Pacific -- under the oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- began soil testing near the company's contaminated railyard in Houston's Fifth Ward this week.
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