U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Neighbors muster to challenge AVX plans
With a plan to start cleaning toxic groundwater contamination caused by AVX Corp.
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I feel sorry for all the residents in the area. With a monster like avx living next door, who would feel safe living in the neighborhood?
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It all boils down to money and greed without any concern whatsoever for anyone else. To ban smoking OUTSIDE in Surfside, then to allow a company like AVX to pollute the air with even more toxic chemicals than cigarette smoke, is absolutely ludicrous!!!!!!! Where is the COMMON SENSE here?????????
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Joined: Jun 16, 2008 Comments: 14 |
Moral hit it on the head, corporate greed and government's lack of concern for the people. AVX should be required to move out of the city limits. I am sure if you looked at the tax base, AVX pays more taxes than all of the Bent Oaks residents - so they got the power - Money is power. Of course you could use the Mayor's statement " Hey, you don' like it, move.
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14000 pounds of air emissions AFTER pollution controls are applied? That 7 tons (a year?). Fugitive emissions do not include the collection and deliberate venting of pollutants. They are the accumulation of minor losses from equipment. Just how big is this operation? Their toluene bill will be huge.
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Joined: Jun 6, 2008 Comments: 48 |
I own a condo in Sterling village and was relieved to hear the water problem did not effect us, but now they want to pollute the air we breath? When does it end? What's next, a toxic dump until the corporate headquarters can come up with future plans? Stop it now.
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John,
The total uncontrolled toluene emissions would be 71.95 tons per year, or 143,900 pounds. Most of that will be contained by the company's pollution control system. Fugitive emissions would make up 10 percent of that amount, according to the permit application. In addition, another 5 percent of the toluene that is captured by AVX's pollution control system would be deliberately vented. The other 95 percent would be destroyed. So the total fugitive and controlled emissions would amount to 15 percent of the 143,900 pounds total. |
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Good post...and I liked that last line. |
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All residents of the city of Myrtle Beach should be concerned about TCE in the ground water. The drainage basin (ditches) that connect to AVX land form a network that covers a good portion of the city. It flows down the back side of Beaver Road then beside Sterling Village and on to Wither's Swash and on and on.
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When AVX opened here there was woods and the Airforce Base. Both vital to the everyday way of american life. If you have a cell phone, a pacemaker, a defribulator, a computer thank AVX for making these things work. If you have a friend, family member or loved one in the miltary know AVX also works to insure that our soldiers are the best equiped in the world. Agian thank AVX. It is too bad the city and the neighborhoods grew up around a factory.
Please don't persecute AVX (and it's employees), for your decisions to move near a factory, former airbase and a national guard amory. |
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