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Winds, water raise fears
Photo by M.A. Bengtson
An anonymous donor is sponsoring large signs opposing the
dump at numerous points throughout the area.
Landfill foes
about drainage,
being downwind
• Residents near the proposed toxic
dump wonder about the pollution
that could be headed their way
for chemical pollution at the
southern end’ of
Chambers County.
By MA BENGTSON
Staff writer
Drainage and- prevailing
winds could spreacl pollution
from a proposed toxic waste
landfill quite literally into the
homes of West Chambers
County and Baytown resi-
dents.
Not farm from the pro-
posed dump is Rice Farm
Road, now Sour 55/Fisher
Road, which earned its name
in the early 1900s from the
industry that flooded the area
to grow a crop for export.
Water from the Old River
Rice Irrigation Canal kept the
industry in business.
Now, that tendency to flood
and eventually send floodwa-
ters. into Trinity Bay and the
Galveston Bay system is rais-
ing fears about the potential
On top of that, are concerns
that air pollution from the
proposed dump are likely to
be carried right into Baytown
by the prevailing winds.
TSP Development Ltd., a
Woodlands-based company
headed by Terry R. Parks, has
been working since 1996 to
get air, solid waste and storm
water permits for construction
of a chemical waste landfill
just south of Fisher Road and
east of FM 1405 on land con-
trolled by USX Realty.
The chemical dump would
be constructed on 797 acres
of land, could excavate to a
depth of 40 feet and would be
See WINDS on Page 6A
Sun graphic by Gemima Trujillo
The site for a chemical waste dump proposed by TSP Development Ltd. would be in the center of the
Cedar Crossing Industrial Park, south of Spur 55/Fisher Road and east of FM 1405 and a Union Pacific
rail spur that leads into land controlled by USX Realty. Normal storm water runoff from the site is to be
treated by the company and discharged through Cedar Gully directly into Trinity Bay. Flooding from tropi-
cal storms or hurricanes could push water south along the railroad embankment and flow southwest into
Water Oak (Ijams) Gully and into the Galveston Bay system via Ijams and Ash lakes arid Cedar Bayou. If
permitted by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the dump is to be built over a sole
source aquifer that feeds the wells of citizens of Beach City to the south of the proposed dump. The
more than 40 tons of volatile organic compounds and particulate matter will be carried over the heart
of Baytown by the prevailing southeast to northwest windflow.
their
shots
Health officials
remind parents
of immunizations
By MELISSA RENTEHA
Staff writer
State health officials remind
parents that immunizations are
required for all Texas school chil-
dren before heading to classes.
Many parents do not keep up
with their child’s immunization
records and fail to get them the
proper immunizations, said
Sherry Hayes of the Texas
Department of Health.
"They either put it aside to do
later or just don’t think about it,”
, she'1 said.
Texas ranks last in immttniza- ’
■ tion rates, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
. The center recently, reported
that last year, 69.5 percent of
Texas children ages 19 months
to 35 months had received all
recommended vaccinations
compared with the national
average of 77.6 percent.
“We didn’t expect to be
ranked 50th, but we’ve known
for some time our immunization
levels aren’t rising at ‘the rates
we want,” Dr. Sharilyn Stanley,
the state’s associate commis-
sioner for disease control and
prevention, said last week.
North Carolina posted the
best record, with 87.6 percent.
. Children attending Texas pub-
lic and private schools must be
vaccinated for polio, hepatitis B,
chicken pox, measles, mumps,
rubella and diphtheria.
Parents must show proof that
See SHOTS on Page 3A
Local officials keep watch even as Tropical Storm Barry appears to head north and east
By MELISSA RENTERIA
Staff writer
National Weather Service
meteorologists on Saturday said
Tropical Storm Barry is heading
north, away from the Texas Gulf
Coast'.
The storm stalled in the Gulf of
Mexico on Saturday and looked
likely to bypass Louisiana and hit
Alabama or the Florida
Panhandle when it began moving.
At a glance
Follow the storm
yourself with our tracking
chart on Page 6B
But local emergency manage-
ment officials said they will con-
tinue monitoring the storm as part
of the office’s 24-hour stand-by
stage.
Tropical Storm Barry is the
second storm of the 2001 hurri-
cane season. It developed in the
Gulf of Mexico on Thursday.
“We are continuing to monitor
the weather situation because you
can never second guess Mother
Nature,” said Baytown
Emergency Management
Coordinator Bernard Olive.
He said the National Weather
Service alerts emergency man-
agement officials of any major
weather condition that could
require evacuation.
“We stay on a state of readiness
24 hours a day every day,” Olive
said. “We never really get off of
alert status.”
in Case an evacuation is neces-
sary, Olive said residents should
stay with relatives or friends who
live in an interior part of the state.
“We tell people not to go east
or west because the path of the
storm could change and you
could be heading right toward it,”
he said.
“Our official track does bring
it inland somewhere between
See BARRY on Page 2A
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takes no-hitter into
seventh inning
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 252, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 5, 2001, newspaper, August 5, 2001; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1023378/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.