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	"author_name": "Green for the Greater Good",
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	"title": "Governor Carney and DNREC: Protect Our Health and Help Us Build a Park at the Rodney Reservoir",
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	"description": "We must act now to protect our health. The City of Wilmington has discovered hazardous chemicals like mercury, cobalt, and benzo(a)pyrene in the soils of the Rodney Reservoir. The City wants to move forward with demolition in January anyway–without cleaning up the contamination–and without a commitment or a plan to transform the Rodney Reservoir into a public park.   According to the report on soil testing the City published in October, “The results indicate that: Regulated substances in shallow soil pose an unacceptable cancer risk under the resident scenario. Regulated substances in shallow and combined soil pose an unacceptable non-cancer risk under the resident child HI scenario.” The City’s plan to demolish the Rodney Reservoir could put our health at risk. Demolition would take four months during which the hazardous chemicals that are currently bound up in the soil could be released in dust or water-run off. Governor Carney and DNREC–the state’s version of the EPA–need to enforce existing state laws and require the City to clean up the hazardous chemicals before starting demolition. This would also give time to complete a community-driven design to transform the Rodney Reservoir into a public park. Over 80 residents and local stakeholders partnered last June with faculty and students from the University of Delaware’s Living Lab Research Group to create a vision for a community-focused, nature-based park at the Rodney Reservoir. An even larger group of UD students in the Landscape Architecture program have been working all fall to develop creative designs for the park that build on that vision. The City must not miss this opportunity to work with the community on creating a design for the future park that minimizes the potential for exposure and builds on the unique historical and topographical features of the site. Ask Governor Carney and DNREC to require the City to follow state laws to protect our health. Working together, we can transform the Rodney Reservoir into a safe, community- and nature-focused public park that residents of all ages and abilities can enjoy.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/governor-carney-and-dnrec-protect-our-health-and-build-park"
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