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DEP Stops Blasting At Site Of New Wal-Mart

DEP Stops Blasting At Site Of New Wal-Mart - Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 2:44PM EST

Reported by: Jill Konopka
Sunday, Jan 27, 2008 @02:44pm EST
(TAYLOR, Lackawanna County) - The Collins Family in Taylor was forced from their home last month after blasting at a new Wal-Mart superstore nearby, raised health concerns. Well, it happened again last week. And again, the Department of Environmental Protection has had to step in and stop it. Sandra Collins spoke with WBRE News, "I can't sleep at night, yesterday I woke up four times to check on them and make sure they're ok." Sandra Collins is a busy Mother to Bryce and two others in Taylor. Sandra - "crying, it's hard." She's also busy worrying about Carbon Monoxide seeping in to her Loomis Avenue home Collins told WBRE News, "When they start dynamiting up here near the road they have to break up ground, we'll end up getting it." For a second time in as many months, the Department Of Environmental Protection has ordered blasting on the site of a new nearby Wal-Mart to stop. Underneath it lays old mines linked to C.O. poisoning Mayor Richard Bowen also spoke with WBRE News, "I don't know if it's temporary or permanent. The elevated readings were nowhere near dangerous, but reading of 6 to 9 and the homeowner did call me." That same homeowner has been hospitalized in the past. Neighbors are now worried. Ray Dougher said, "When you get people with headaches, dry throat and going to the hospital you better watch out." To avoid that again, the blasting company put the Collins family up in a hotel last week during its initial test blast. They stopped after another blast revealed low levels of C.O. in one home and a sewer manhole. Mayor Bowen added, "It's our hopes and wishes borough residents are taken care of first. They'll (Geological Technologies, Inc) have to come up and submit ideas on how to get rid of rock there instead of blasting going on.")) For now, the Collins have six C.O. monitors and detectors in their homes, some supplied by the blasting company. Others… Ray Dougher said, "No, we never got any, we went out and bought our own." A phone call to that blasting company; Geological Technologies Inc. out of Pottsville was not returned. D.E.P. Spokesman Mark Carmon said, "The blasts stopped last Thursday after very low levels of C.O. were found. There's no blasting taking place now, so there's no threat. In the future, if the blasting company wants to continue they'll have to revise their plans and get back to the D.E.P.”
 


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