University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1985
Truck begins cleanup drive
United Press International
GLEN AVON, Calif. — The "Stringfellow Special," a toxic waste-laden truck, set out amid cheers yesterday for Washington, D.C., in the start of a "superdrive" to press for stronger Superfund cleanup legislation.
About 50 cheering people brought samples of contaminated soil and water in coffee cans, mayonnaise jars and a large plastic bottle to place in a 55-gallon drum on the flatbed truck.
In 1979, officials afraid that heavy rains might break a dam, released an overflow of water from the String-fellow Acid Pits into sewers near Glen Avon Elementary School. Soon afterward, students at the school began complaining of headaches and other health-related troubles.
State officials have insisted the soil and water do not exceed state guidelines for toxic wastes.
"We have to live with this garbage for the last 16 years," said Penny Newman, whose two teen-age
boy once attended the school. "We
fool that it should to chew it up."
The "Stringfellow Special" will make a three-day tour of California and stop in other states to collect toxic waste samples.
The National Campaign against Toxic Hazards, a citizens' coalition of more than 300 groups, said the cross-country "superdrive" would collect water and dirt samples from around toxic waste dumps in 37 states and bring them to Washington.
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