This tool is designed to replace all testing procedures for Public and Environmental Health and Safety. This tool eliminates the need to have methods based on profit. Eliminating profit from the equation, we can now serve the people. It is our intent to bring people back as the benefactor.

Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and the waste sacrifice area it resides in will be using this tool as the first ever full spectrum of harmful toxic chemicals including their combined forever more accumulations. The results will be shown to the public first, while working with important key members of our nonprofit. We want all leaders to see the significant flaws in allowing critical lifesaving choices to be based on profit. The least harmful method based on the results of this test will direct us to an immediate plan of action. We will work with leadership to serve the people and protect the people. Leadership will continue to serve the public and this will in turn show everyone how profit is harming us and our planet. By serving the people, leadership must change to enable action to protect and prevent harm in real-time.

The Reason We Came to This Conclusion

It is difficult to appreciate the many direct and complex adverse impacts on Citizens who live adjacent to Cedar Hills Regional Landfill (CHRL), such as are generated by waste-related industries and facilities, without having first-hand experience by living nearby.

There are many valid human and environmental health-related concerns associated with contaminated air, soil and water, plus many direct adverse living experiences related to ground effects, such as and including geological and seismic disturbances that involve citizen’s homes. All of these concerns have direct and known adverse impacts on human and environmental health and safety.

Repeated and on-going lawsuits related to exceedances of released Toxics, including carcinogens and neurotoxins, many of which are generated by on-going gas leaks, fumes, aerosols, rainwater runoff and landfill leachates, reflect just a few dangers imposed on the directly-affected citizens.

Our mission is to break the cycle of the continuing landfill expansion and the associated Toxic releases that have persisted for decades. Governing bodies, agencies and waste-associated industries do not provide answers for when this dangerous and damaging behavior will cease.

A reasonable beginning will be for King County Solid Waste Division and Washington State Department of Ecology to provide the adversely-affected citizens full disclosure of the full spectrum of Toxics to which the citizens are exposed. In the least case, it needs to be made clear for the Citizens what is the full spectrum of Toxics in the air, fumes, aerosols, soils, sediments, waters, leachates and other unmanaged and uncontrolled by-products of CHRL.

A reasonable starting point will be full disclosure of:

i)     What’s in CHRL?

ii)    What toxic chemicals are released to the environment?

iii)   What is the Toxicity associated with each released Toxic?

Universal Test for All Public and Environmental Health and Safety Procedures:

·         Performance of a complete Chemical Characterization of the aerosols, fumes, volatiles, leachates and runoff, including surface and groundwaters, stating each chemical detected, as well as its known toxicity, plus details of the synergistic toxicity of the multitude of permutations of the listed chemicals. The chemical inventory should include samples from Cedar Hills Regional Landfill, Cedar Grove Compost, Land Reclamation, Inc. and Queen City Farms Superfund site, plus the receiving waters, to include the Cedar River, Issaquah Creek and the underlying aquifer.

·         Conduct of a Toxicological Analysis of each chemical derived from the Toxics detected.

Notes:

·         Sampling must be conducted in both wet and dry seasons of the year.

·         Generation of a plan for elimination of Toxics release into air, soils and waters is a requirement.

·         Development of a plan, with timeframes, to prevent Toxics release from CHRL is a requirement.

·         The Proposed Scientific Evaluation and Reporting Approach is expected to include affected citizens as part of a required oversight committee.

Anticipated Outcome: Armed with this basic core data, the affected Citizens, King County and the Department of Ecology will then be able to move forward with an immediate proactive plan of restoration (not mitigation or remediation) of this precious living environment. It is time to break the cycle of toxic waste disposal into our natural environment, including into the neighborhoods of local citizens.