Lake Superior’s Toxic Waste Barrels: Activits Confront Denials,

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Editor’s note: Glen Maxham of Duluth, Minnesota has investigated the barrel scandal for over 13

years. He is currently Vice President of the Save Lake Superior Association. While not speaking

officially for the SLSA, Glen made the following presentation Feb. 3, 2007 at the Living Green

Conference in Superior, Wisconsin.

The majority of you have no doubt heard about the 1,450 barrels that have been dumped in the

lake…. They were dumped by Honeywell, via the Army Corps of Engineers between 1957 and

1962.

The cities of Duluth, Superior and Thunder Bay, Congressmen Jim Oberstar and David Obey, the

Save Lake Superior Association and others have been seeking over the past 20 years remedial

action, ranging from chemical testing of the barrels’ contents, to removal of all the 55- gallon

drums, to other kinds of testing to find out exactly what may be circulating now in our water.