Here's where we are with the Public Health aspect of the West Dallas lead poisoning Superfund. As backgrond, Dallas Teas is the most racist city in the Nation. With thousands of blacks and Hispanics poisoned with lead, do you think Dallas wanted to help them back then, or help the Blacks and Hispanis Today? Here's an ecerpt of the speech I just gae today which gets to the guts of this MASSIELY cORRUPT Superfund Projet. I would appreiate any support from the APFN readers conerning my claim of the orruption, and incompetany of eluding about 80 to 90 percent of the effeted community of 20,000 people. "The biggest piece of information to me that came out of the meeting was that in 1984 Dallas was given the responsibility to perform a public health program in 3 years, focusing only on 0 to 6 yr olds, and pregnant women, AND focusing only in one half mile radius of the RSR plant. STOP! What about the 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc year olds who lived all their lives in the 4 mile radius of the plant, which wound up being the approximate size of the Superfund site in 1993. The Court order basically, silently, and to me CRIMINALLY stated that these other people (Blacks and Hispanics) exposed for years to the lead poisoning should be ignored. That court order was an insult to anyone with common sense, and certainly to a toxicologist." ."...The average American mortality rate is 8 deaths per 1000 population per year. If you take the claimed 11,000 deaths in a West Dallas population of 20,000, over a 30 year period you get a mortality rate of 20 death per 1000, which is 2.5 times the national average. This, and the fact that William Hopkins, Gwain Wooten, Otis Fagan, and scores of others have been coming down here for years should be incentive enough for the city council to get the lead out, and have a sense of urgency. 11,000 deaths over 30 years is 366 death a year, or 1 death a day. I say to you that every day you wait is a death on your consciences, and perhaps a continued strengthening of the alleged civil and criminal cases pending." ______________________________________________________ A Call For a West Dallas Mortality Rate, and an Epidemiological Study
How Many People Have to Say "People are Dying of Lead In West Dallas."?
The Past is Over - Let's Get on With Saving Lives!
Presented to the Dallas City Council by Richard P. Sheridan, P.E. September 25, 2012
Professional Engineer, N.Y. - Activist www.RichardPsheridanPE@gmail.com
_____________________________________________________ First let me respond to a rumor from a spouse of a city council member. I don't want to kill, or harm any of you. Remember, Mayor Rawlings, your pastor calls me a John the Baptist, but he doesn’t like me anymore either. I'm just doing my job. It isn't a popularity contest, nor is it easy. I'm not a threat to anyone, unless they say the word threat means "a message that causes one to be concerned about their corruption will be exposed".
There was a recent meeting at City Hall Monday concerning the West Dallas RSR Settlement. It was conducted by Councilmember Scott Griggs, and attended by City Attorney Tom Perkins, and two city attorneys, Otis Fagan with about 10 of his group, Gwain Wooten and five of her group, and Linda Bates, William Hopkins, and myself. We were there to primarily hear about Mr. Fagan's case/claim against Dallas concerning the RSR Lead poisoning Public Health Program conducted by the city. Amongst Mr. Fagan's claims, which sounded quite believable and ominous concerning Dallas both civil and criminal liabilities, Mr. Fagan claims that the City of Dallas did not complete the Public Health Program as set forth in Dallas District Ct. Case No. 83-5680 in 1983, and they have some major liabilities today for this inaction. Mr. Fagan stated that the FBI has been contacted concerning his claims of Dallas criminal injurious conduct, and depraved indifference. We also heard of the city's position concerning their involvement in the project, and the City claimed their work was done, and they have no other responsibilities or liabilities on the RSR project. The remainder of the discussions from the majority of the 20 attendees were statements that too many people are dying of lead in West Dallas, and why isn't anything being done about it. It was almost unanimous with the people attending that Dallas is responsible to help the now sick and dying. Mr. Fagan claims 11,000 have already died of the lead, and 15,000 are now sick and dying.
The biggest piece of information to me that came out of the meeting was that in 1984 Dallas was given the responsibility to perform a public health program in 3 years, focusing only on 0 to 6 yr olds, and pregnant women, AND focusing only in one half mile radius of the RSR plant. STOP! What about the 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc year olds who lived all their lives in the 4 mile radius of the plant, which wound up being the approximate size of the Superfund site in 1993. The Court order basically, silently, and to me CRIMINALLY stated that these other people (Blacks and Hispanics) exposed for years to the lead poisoning should be ignored. That court order was an insult to anyone with common sense, and certainly to a toxicologist. I say this is how racist Dallas worked in the more racist '80s, and how today's racist Dallas operates. The recent Council outbursts over municipal court appointments and the redistricting battles both reveal Dallas continued racism. So back in 1984 the Establishment was saying to the West Dallas community, "Get sick, and then get a lawyer if you are smart enough, and can live that long." Instead of the much lower pay-now public health program for the entire lead poisoned community back then, we are in the today pay later, with thousands dead, and thousands sick and suffering. It seems that the way Dallas handled the West Dallas lead poisoned residents is how it treats its homeless. If West Dallas were a white community you bet all this would not have happened. Is it true that all the whites and Hispanics were moved out of the West Dallas public housing project which was right across the street from the lead plant.
So what is, or should be the next major West Dallas action? Another lawsuit? Major protests? Camping out at City Hall? The next major action MUST be the authorization by the Dallas City Council to perform both a mortality rate study and an epidemiological study which will do two things. These will determine if the West Dallas mortality rate is abnormal, and find out if there have been higher than normal incidences of lead related illnesses, and deaths. For instance, the average American mortality rate is 8 deaths per 1000 population per year. If you take the claimed 11,000 deaths in a West Dallas population of 20,000, over a 30 year period you get a mortality rate of 20 death per 1000, which is 2.5 times the national average. This, and the fact that William Hopkins, Gwain Wooten, Otis Fagan, and scores of others have been coming down here for years should be incentive enough for the city council to get the lead out, and have a sense of urgency. 11,000 deaths over 30 years is 366 death a year, or 1 death a day. I say to you that every day you wait is a death on your consciences, and perhaps a continued strengthening of the alleged civil and criminal cases pending.