Ogre-oid update: toxic cauldron in Louisville's west end

Ogre-oid update: toxic cauldron in Louisville's west end.

LIVE: I just returned from an investigative tour of the "campground" area of Louisville surrounded by the chemical plants and toxic waste of Rubbertown. Unexpectedly, several residents approached us and began to tell us more about the detrimental effects on the local community: unusually high rates of cancer, people dying of cancer in their 40s, birth defects, chrones disease, lupus, and neurological defects. The Commonwealth's environmental board inspects the area, tells the city to do something about, MSG writes a report that something's being done about it, and that's it. According to one local, for years "plackard" trucks would dump all kinds of chemicals, then use a "stompard" to stomp the toxic waste into the ground as compactly as possible. There are children living everywhere in this area. The waste includes paint thinner, chloride, corrosive and caustic acid, cadallitic (sp?) converters, and god knows what else. According to locals, all of the chemical plants do it. It's the dirty little environmental secret of the city: regulatory agencies tell chemical plants to get their act together and clean things up--and they do, by dumping their waste in a neighborhood, where, by the way, the local residents are not allowed to sell their property but can only pass it on the members of the family (a legacy of social injustice if there ever was one). A lawyer was in the area taking depositions from the locals about the effects on the toxic waste on the people living there. Don't think no one knows about this: everyone in Louisville, Frankfort, and the media have know about this problem for decades, and the plans for all of the chemical factories is of course to expand production. As one local put it, "I'm surprised everyone here ain't dead." Look for the first MoPod docupod coming very soon.