Anniston Star
October 29, 2003
Letters

Burning issues

Heard about your Sarin burn! We moved from Jacksonville, Ark. because my government was burning dioxin. This is the leftover residue from Agent Orange production during the Viet Nam conflict. The government’s contractor was to build an incinerator that would totally burn the dioxin to "six-nines," that is 99.9999 percent burned.

We got a court injunction to stop the burn until the incinerator could be "proven to incinerate to a six-nine criteria." This injunction was granted because scientists agreed that: "at the 6-9 disposal level, enough dioxin will be released to do significant damage to all immediate areas as well as all areas downwind of the incinerator."

After the incinerator failed to meet the 99.9999 percent criteria three times, the contractor began to incinerate at night. After being caught doing this, a second federal court order was issued disallowing operation of the incinerator, and at this point the incinerator began burning on a 24 hour basis.

My wife, six-year-old son, and I moved to Texas because we were directly downwind of this facility, and their burn was still proceeding when we left.

Sound familiar?

Jerry Griffin
Stinnett, Texas