Gibson Station. Here is a Princeton Daily Clarion story on the problems with the Cinergy plant, that we last noted Friday in this entry (third item).
New Castle odor. "New Castle citizens organize to raise stink about odor" is the headline to this story today in the Muncie StarPress. This caught my eye:
NEW CASTLE - Two dozen concerned citizens, including a mailman, engineer and optometrist, attended a meeting Friday night to discuss a long-time odor problem in the community. * * * Eddie Hager, who owns Sta-Green lawn service company, organized the meeting at Chrysler High School. * * *Posted by Marcia Oddi at July 26, 2004 03:41 PMHager said he had documented more than 200 incidents related to the odor.
He went to IDEM's offices in Indianapolis to look at files on Metaldyne New Castle, which purchased the DaimlerChrysler machining and forge plant here on Dec. 31. The plant is part of Metaldyne's chassis group, and manufactures suspension components as well as engine and transmission components for Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles.
IDEM staff rolled its voluminous files on Metaldyne out on a dolly. "It's all about chemicals," Hager said of what was in the files.
When he told the staff he would like copies of the files, he was told it would cost $1 a page. That's done to discourage people from copying the files, Hager said. [My emphasis]