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Look Where Are They Dumping Their Hazardous Chemicals Now?

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By Steven Montes


Look Where Are They Dumping Their Hazardous Chemicals Now?

By Steven Montes,

I was busy just doing my art while listening to the 5 O’clock news on TV KVOA Channel-4 in Tucson.  When a story I was watching jolted me out of my seat.  There was a news story about how Biosphere II located in Pima County near the small towns Tucson, Catalina, and Oro Valley, Arizona had been bought by Fairfield Homes, a well known national home building company specialized in the building of retirement communities.

Normally this news story being reported would not have bothered anyone else but me.  But because I had prior first hand knowledge about the University of Arizona owning a Nuclear Plant directly on its campus, and had been illegally dumping its Nuclear waste for years in the ground on a parcel of land owned by the University of Arizona just located behind Biosphere II I was outraged.  

The information I received first hand was form a former patient that had come into my Orthopedic office called Montes Orthopedic.  I have worked at this office for over 20 years as a foot specialist.  

As a rule I have the habit of asking people what kind of work do they do.  By asking this question I am trying to determine if their foot problems are related to their job.  So one day in 1998 I ask this man who had foot problems this very question.  He responded that he was a scientist in Biology who researched cancer at the University of Arizona.

He started to explain to me just how cancer cells spread all over your body.  He stated that the cancer cell will form in the blood when it is damaged, and is then carried through the blood until it randomly attaches to the thin membrane that separates the various organs in the body like in stake at the grocery store.  Once cancer cell attaches itself, the cancer cell will secrete an enzyme that will eat into the white tissue of the thin membrane and spread to the organ that it has chosen.  
So I told him that when I worked for the City of Tucson Parks & Recreation Department in 1974, I was responsible for having dumped thousands of gallons of Malathion used to kill, flies, aphids, and other bugs in the City Parks, and road medians all around the City of Tucson.  I also told him that I had been asked for years to dump the 1400 gallon water buffalo that we had converted into a giant chemical sprayer filled with the second hottest chemical listed on the EPA website.  Every day for years I had dumped 8 gallons of Malathion daily 6 days a week into that tanker.  The first time I was instructed to dump this hazardous chemical into the unlined dump that the City of Tucson built in 1963, I asked my supervisor why we had to dump such an expensive chemical.  Which seemed to be at the time such a waste of so much chemical.  My supervisor stated, that the reason for dumping the chemical was so the tanker would not have any pressure in it over night, because if we did not release the pressure the tanker would break the seals and it would take about 4 months to replace them.  

After telling him this story, I asked him what type of health problems should I expect to have as I get older in life. He stated that most of my problems would be neurological.  It was then that he had told me how the University of Arizona had built a Nuclear Reactor Plant several yeas ago on campus and was dumping the Nuclear waste just behind Biosphere II.  I was in shock and did not tell authorities about what I had just learned about the U of A dumping its Nuclear waste on barren desert.

But when I witnessed the 5 O’clock news story on channel 4,  how Biosphere II had been sold to Fairfield Homes who is the biggest developer of retirement communities in the country I was so shocked to learn that this company was about to build homes over e toxic waste dump where hundreds of new families coming to Tucson would be harmed by the high levels of radiation coming from the ground where the Nuclear waste is buried.  

So I got on line at my computer, and researched Fairfield Homes at;    
www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/1997/05/19/focus20.html  

There it was in black and white, the bigger picture of what I will call the biggest conspiracy ever in the history of our country against its elderly citizens.  Paul Oreffice, the former chairman of Dow Chemical Co, purchased the company out of bankruptcy and gave the builder a new direction.

I feel that this new direction is in the illegal dumping of chemicals for Dow Chemical Companies clients that use more chemicals than they have storage space for.    

It is my highly educated opinion that since Fairfield Home Builders is the greatest builder of retirement communities, that is owned by Paul Oreffice, the former chairman of Dow Chemical Co.  I wouldn’t be surprised if Paul Oreffice is still dumping illegal chemicals under the very homes in the retirement communities where his Fairfield Homes are being built.

I also feel that these illegal chemicals are being dumped under the concrete slabs before they are poured.  I also believe that the chemical being used is being dumped as termite type of control before the concrete flooring is poured hiding all evidence.  

It is also my educated opinion that this conspiracy is only aimed at only the elderly, since it is their old age of the elderly that will ultimately be the blame of there deaths or sicknesses from these chemicals that seep up from the concrete flooring of their homes.  

I do believe that this conspiracy was also designed to counteract the growth of baby boomers as they get older, and to save what is left of our Social Security System.  I also believe that since Arizona is a medical State that these man caused illnesses are deliberate and only serve the needs of medical community.


© Steven Montes

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