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Local safer streets advocacy group looking for input on current satisfaction/concerns about Franklin Blvd. (Other streets in Eug and Spfd to come)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're guessing based on labels on barrels, but admitted they want to test everything because they don't trust that the contents match the labels. It's ugly. They showed some photos - they'd stick the logs inside these huge pressure chambers to force the chemicals into the wood, then pull them out and let them drip dry over the ground. Where people walked through it, tracking it all over the site. That somehow people were complaining for 40 years and the EPA only got allowed on site in Dec 2022 is sobering. (DEQ fined them in 2020, but still, absolutely wild how blatant this was and frankly lacking in any sense of care for their workers or community. And I'm not impressed with the regulatory response. Like how did they not know this was happening?)

 

Zooming in on this meeting right now, looks like some of the info is covered at the FDA website. It's still in the bureacratic/testing pipeline towards being declared a Superfund site. Interesting to see how these agencies work and make decisions in our community, in real time. It''s all moving shockingly slowly - apparently partially due to how long it takes for individual sample results to come back from testing (they're still waiting on data from March samples.) But they're currently guesstimating over 601,000 gallons of super toxic chemicals on site: pentachlorophenol, heavy metals, caustic chemicals. Lots of neighbors reporting still significant odors coming off the plant. (Took 40+ years of people complaining and dying of brain cancer before Baxter came onto DEQ's radar and they began fining Baxter for blatantly illegal practices.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I got the Korean Corn which is somehow corn niblets immersed in cheesey goo and spicy deliciousness on sourdough (vegetarian) my partner got a buffalo chicken, I think also on sourdough. We split a cup of watermelon chunks and cucumber soaked in balsamic glaze. I'm not usually a watermelon person but this was so lovely and flavorful.

 

Oh wow you all! Name says it all, Cheese Bliss, indeed! Amazing food truck in the parking lot of Heritage Distillers inches Whit (off 1st, on Madison) most delicious sandwich I've had in ages. The distillers has some tasty beverages too (including nonalcoholic slushies) a very fine spot!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I downloaded Contact as an app and it's helping with the log in issues. Navigation is still a little clunky and I keeping hitting bad gateway errors but it's improving!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't think we federate with lemmy.world, so I couldn't even see it!

What's weird is that I still can't log in here unless I'm on my ancient laptop. Tablet won't open (I get the login page but it won't take) I've tried clearing the caches. Hopefully the bugs get worked out soon!

 

Anybody here going? (Running/walking/rolling/cheering?)

Or have you been in previous years? Anything you think a first timer should know?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

All right! I finally made it! For the record, it's taken me consistent attempts and two computers since Friday to create a lemmy account and then log in here. I trust other people are also trying, but it's a heck of a exercise in patience. (I've been on Mastodon since 2017, so not new to the vagaries of the fediverse, but this was seriously testing me.)

Anyway - thank you! Glad to have Eug (and those folks across the river) in the house!