Monday, January 20, 2020

Imagine having to worry about this in your backyard

Residents catch truck dumping chemical waste into Vrishabhavati river 
Alert residents of a gated community caught a truck driver trying to dump chemical waste into the Vrishabhavathi river on Saturday night. 
The truck was seized and the keys were taken away by the residents. But, when the residents, accompanied by the beat police, went to the police station to file a complaint, the driver vanished along with the truck.  
Nagaraju, Ramaraju, M.K. Kulkarni, C.J. Prakash, all residents of GoodEarth Orchard, noticed the truck belonging to a factory trying to dump the waste and caught hold of the driver. But he managed to escape....
I'm sure there was a time when this was a problem in America, but I'm guessing it's not very common now... 

2 comments:

  1. I've seen a few news articles about septic tank companies getting nailed for doing this in the US. Never a chemical company though; the negative publicity would be ruinous.

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  2. Right outside my hometown. They caught the ... well, jerks is a mild term.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/08/18/north-carolina-prepares-to-clean-up-massive-pcb-spill-along-highways/9bead1ba-4a60-4519-a342-fb3330a8768e/

    https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/11/us/carolinians-angry-over-pcb-landfill.html

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