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Whose job is it to reduce toxic mercury in the Ohio River? Her white hide was crusted with diarrhea, and her hip bones tented her hide. DuPont settled the suit in 2004 making provisions for water filtration, medical monitoring, and potential personal injury claims if the controversial substance could be scientifically linked to human disease. He’s seen both sides. “They said it’s very pathologically unusual.” Research has indicated to Danzey, who’s a nurse, that pathologically unusual cancers are not uncommonly associated with industrial poisonings. “DuPont has been in the Ohio Valley for 70-plus years, and has been a tremendous employer,” he said. But, some three decades later, there was a price to pay for taking on DuPont. © 2021 Minnesota Public Radio. He zoomed out and panned over to an industrial pipe spewing froth into the creek. The Water Department, or Water Utility, provides potable tap water to residential customers, businesses, and others in Wood County. Even David-and-Goliath tales often have complicated backstories, and Joyce knows well that such is the case with Parkersburg and DuPont. Information submitted to the EPA as part of the investigation into C8 contamination near Parkersburg, West Virginia. As a father, he had watched his little girls splash around in its shallow ripples. Five years later, the socket of her hip shattered while running with her husband. Now, he was feeding them twice as much and watching them waste away. That day had never come, so he decided he would make them watch a video. But “my heart hurts,” Tracewell said, to think that her daughter’s illnesses might be a consequence of all that. He worked for BorgWarner, a manufacturing company on the river. The edge in his voice was anger. All Rights Reserved. “We all have stories of friends and family, neighbors, dying too young or being diagnosed with various medical problems,” Higgs said. “A tenacious attorney (Ruffalo) uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world’s largest corporations,” the film’s synopsis says. Higgs, now an emergency room physician living in Richmond, Virginia, recalls returning from road trips with his family asleep in the back seat, awakened as they approached home by the familiar waft of chemicals. His plaintiffs were customers of six water districts along the Ohio River on both the … Marketplace is a division of MPR's 501 (c)(3). 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Do you want your water [to be] flammable? The pipe flowed out of a collection pond at the low end of a landfill. “I think it’s terrible, absolutely horrendous what happened because of decisions made for monetary gain. It smelled rotten. “He just went to work every day; he provided for [his family].”, Jones’ friend Janet Ray’s husband passed away 16 years ago from pancreatic cancer. Earlier this year, Chemours was cited by the EPA for the unregulated release of new chemical compounds from its West Virginia and North Carolina facilities. He couldn’t quite place it. The production of DuPont’s nonstick household products at the Washington Works facility resulted in environmental contamination. “I love West Virginia,” she said. Its dumping pits were unlined, designed for the disposal of nonhazardous waste—office paper and everyday trash. Recently, the cows had started charging, trying to kick him and butt him with their heads, as this one had before she died. In this Aug. 1, 2018 photo, Lauren Woehr pours bottled water into her 16-month-old daughter Caroline's cup at their home in Horsham, Pa. “She’s poor as a whip-poor-will. Well-paying jobs, great benefits, Little League sponsorships, investments in the arts — but at a cost. It kicked and thumped and wallered around there like you wouldn’t believe.”. We mapped out the toxic wastewater discharges along the Ohio River. The carcass was starting to smell. At PUB, our utility systems serve greater Parkersburg with 32,000+/- residents, and will continue to serve the future needs of our community. He’s heard, “If DuPont leaves, we’re done. Our water system is the largest groundwater supplied municipal water system in West Virginia. “And they’re going to find out one of these days that somebody’s tired of it.”. “They know what happened.” They allow her “to sit in this truth regardless of how it affects them.” That means a lot. At fifty-four, Earl was an imposing figure, six feet tall, lean and oxshouldered, with sandpaper hands and a permanent squint. Joe and Darlene Kiger live just a few miles from where Radmanesh grew up. She was diagnosed with an atypical form of bone cancer in her right hip. Tracy Danzey grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia, but now lives on the opposite side of the state in its Eastern Panhandle. The Wood County Water Department, located in Parkersburg, WV, is an utility company that operates the public water system. In 2004, DuPont paid $70 million in a class-action lawsuit and agreed to install filtration plants in the affected water districts. A DuPont Teflon producing plant operated near Parkersburg, and that plant has been identified as the likely source. In 2012, an independent panel of scientists — the C8 Science Panel — concluded drinking PFAS contaminated water was linked with six diseases, including kidney and testicular cancers. Attorney Harry Deitzler poses for a portrait in his office at Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee and Deitzler, PLLC, in Charleston, West Virginia, on Nov. 27, 2019. The outcome of the class action lawsuit also funded a 70,000-person health study into the effects of PFOA exposure. He hardly ever saw minnows swimming in the creek anymore, except the ones that floated belly up. PARKERSBURG — The number of Americans impacted by contamination from fluorinated chemicals is much worse than previously estimated, an environmental organization said on Wednesday. Their innards smelled funny and were sometimes riddled with what looked to him like tumors. Not even buzzards and scavengers would eat them. “Somebody’s not doing their duty,” he said to the camera, to anyone who would listen. The cattle farmer stood at the edge of a creek that cut through a sun-dappled hollow. The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book. C8 is found in nonstick pans, waterproof clothing, stain-resistant carpets, microwave popcorn bags, fast-food wrappers and hundreds of other products. It’s called a “forever chemical” because it never fully degrades. Bilott won a $670 million settlement with Dupont over its undisclosed contamination of the drinking water of 70,000 residents in West Virginia and Ohio. The flies hummed as loud as bees. In 2017, DuPont and Chemours agreed to pay $671 million to settle some 3,500 pending lawsuits. As a man, he had walked its banks with his wife. His cattle were dying inexplicably, and in droves. Joe Kiger and his wife Darlene Kiger are photographed at their residence in Washington, West Virginia, on Dec. 4, 2019. Driftwood is scattered along the shoreline at Point Park in Parkersburg, West Virginia, on Nov. 20, 2019. “But you just give me time. The cows grazed on a mixed pasture of white Dutch clover, bluegrass, fescue, red clover . The chemical had seeped into the water supply of at least six public water systems in West Virginia and Ohio. (Courtesy Seth Freeman Photography), DuPont had been aware since at least the 1960s that C8 was toxic, nearly 70,000 of the 80,000 plaintiffs stopped into one of six clinics, Could the Ohio River have rights? “What’s next? His cattle now drank from its pools. So the sentiment goes, he said, “You take the good with the bad, right?”, But Danzey is unwilling. Whatever had killed this cow appeared to have eaten her from the inside out. The problem had to be Dry Run, he thought. When not competing, “we were on the river … we were playing in the creeks. My big concern was that these homes, compared to where i live now, are so cheap because people are fleeing the area and the contaminated water. Birds sang through the white-hot humidity as he panned the camcorder across the creek. I was always in the water.”. In 2004, DuPont paid $70 million in a class-action lawsuit and agreed to install filtration plants in the affected water districts. Danzey’s stepfather is retired from DuPont and her stepbrother works on the Teflon line. Or does it? Who gets to decide what “feminism” looks like? Report contains detailed information on the Tennant lawsuit. (Courtesy Seth Freeman Photography), Weathered signage on the Point Park floodwall greets passersby in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, on Nov. 20, 2019. “It’s just like that other calf up yonder,” he said, panning over the matted grass. DuPont’s own documentation specified that C8 was not to be flushed into surface waters, but the company did so for decades. A federal jury has returned a $2 million verdict against DuPont in the third of 3,500 cases charging that DuPont knowingly contaminated drinking water at its facility near Parkersburg. Behind him, white-faced Herefords grazed in rolling meadows. A DuPont spokesperson provided an overview of its financial and volunteer support initiatives and wrote that the company supports programs and organizations focused on revitalizing neighborhoods and enhancing quality of life; STEM-related initiatives in local schools; and “initiatives that help protect the environment through clean-up or restoration efforts and allow for DuPont Washington Works to show we are a leader in minimizing our environmental footprint within the community.”. Earl loved his cows, and the cows loved Earl. And I burn them all. “It’s like, they don’t want that frying pan anymore,” she said, “but they don’t want anything negative, and they’re very resentful of the people that stirred up the trouble.”. “It’s hard to look back at that time now and see it as idyllic,” Danzey said. “There was a misperception that we were trying to put DuPont out of business, and, of course, that was created intentionally by the people in Wilmington,” Deitzler said, referring to DuPont’s Delaware headquarters. To see more, please visit ohiowatershed.org. “You notice them dark place there, all down through? In another field, a grown cow lay dead. Thunderstorms occasionally swelled the creek so much that he couldn’t wade across it. Earl had come to believe that its water was now poisoned — with what, he did not know. A thicker foam gathered in eddies, trembling like egg whites whipped into stiff peaks so high they sometimes blew off on a breeze. Cox, Hawkins and Higgs were among a pack of guys who ran together in high school and stayed close after. Donate today — in any amount — to become a Marketplace Investor. Post-diagnosis, Cox had begun performing stand-up comedy routines that incorporated flute solos. Good River: Stories of the Ohio is a series about the environment, economy and culture of the Ohio River watershed, produced by seven nonprofit newsrooms. The case centered around several communities in West Virginia and southern Ohio, where a toxic chemical once used to make Teflon had leached into the water supply. “just a duke’s mix of everything.” Until lately, the cattle always fattened up nicely on that, plus the corn he grew to finish them and a grain mix he bought from the feed store. Fortunately, water consumers in the Mid-Ohio Valley have options thanks to the Leach et al class action lawsuit against DuPont over contamination at Washington Works near Parkersburg, West Virginia. (Photo by Lexi Browning/100 Days in Appalachia), Tracy Danzey grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He sliced open the chest cavity, pulled out a lung, and turned the camera back on. Deitzler was involved in settling the C8 groundwater contamination suit against DuPont in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He attributes this to the release of “Dark Waters.”. He was speaking to the camcorder pressed to his eye. He and his wife, Darlene, joined the class-action suit that was settled in 2004. Now it looked like dirty dishwater. He knows, of course, the distinction between correlation and causation. I don’t ever remember seeing that in there before.”, He cut out the heart and sliced it open. Earl had sought help, but no one would step up. “It don’t do you any good to go to the DNR about it. Attached to it was a gallbladder that didn’t. A science panel, comprised of public health scientists appointed by DuPont and lawyers representing the community, was convened to examine the immense database. For years, DuPont allowed large amounts of C8 from its plant to contaminate the air, groundwater and landfills in the area resulting in contamination of drinking water in six water districts in Ohio and West Virginia. She had a calf over there. The chemical seeped into the water supplies of the communities of Lubeck and Little Hocking, immediately west of Parkersburg, and the city of Belpre, Ohio, just across the river; and three other water systems. “Such a wonderful, accepting community.”. Their tap water had been deemed unsafe – laced with a chemical known as C8. He died Jan. 28, 2017, at the age of 41, a father of three. Its surface was matte with a crusty film that wrinkled against the shore. The hand that fed did clench. The carcasses lay where they fell. Her dad suffers from discoid lupus, causing sores the size of 50-cent pieces on his forehead. Her brother has lupus and had colon cancer, and her sister-in-law has also been diagnosed with lupus. He had stopped feeding his family venison from the deer he shot on his land. DuPont scientists were aware in the early 1990s of links to cancerous tumors from C8 exposure. Her stepfather wonders if one day his pension check will no longer arrive as a result of all the financial fallout. After contacting the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, he felt stonewalled. His freezer had brimmed with venison, wild turkey, squirrel and rabbit. In his new book, “Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont,” environmental lawyer Robert Bilott describes his long legal battle with Teflon-maker DuPont. Hunting had been one of Earl’s greatest pleasures. In the spring, he would run and catch the calves so his daughters could pet them. On the other side of his property line, Dry Run Landfill was filling up the little valley that had once belonged to his family. But a lot of those same people decided “that Harry Deitzler is a horrible person” for his role in exposing DuPont. She now lives on the other side of the state, in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle. Parkersburg, said Doug Higgs, is the kind of town where everybody knows everybody. One tooth had an abscess so large he reckoned he could stick an ice pick clear under it. “I certainly hope it didn’t.”, Tracy Danzey was raised in the quiet of Vienna, there with the Rays, the Joneses, the Higgs family. PARKERSBURG, W. Va. – Tommy Joyce is no cinephile. Something is the matter right there. That thing’s about … oh, two-thirds bigger than it should be.”. Don’t understand that at all. The plaintiff, John M. Wolf of Parkersburg, claims that PFOA in his drinking water caused him to develop ulcerative colitis. Mark Ruffalo stars in the movie as an attorney representing a farmer who believes his livestock is dying after drinking water contaminated by PFAS. The tongue looked normal, but some of the teeth were coal black, interspersed with the white ones like piano keys. And I’m gonna cut her open and find out what caused her to die. That’s very unusual. Two weeks after he filmed the foamy water, Earl aimed the camcorder at one of his cows. It’s something I have never run into before.”, He reached back into the cow and pulled out a liver that looked about right. ‘Oh, Beth.’”. You could poke it with a stick and leave a hole. Secret tests conducted in 1984 by the DuPont chemical company found a Teflon-related contaminant (C8) in the tap water of the Little Hocking Water Association in Ohio, just across the river from the company’s Teflon plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. actually one house is on Juliana in the historic district and one is on Market outside the district. The chemical seeped into the water supplies of the communities of Lubeck and Little Hocking, immediately west of Parkersburg, and the city of Belpre, Ohio, just across the river; and three other water systems. Earl pulled on white gloves and pried open the cow’s mouth, probing her gums and teeth. His earlier efforts had all revealed unpleasant surprises: tumors, abnormal organs, unnatural smells. In March 2002, Ken Ward Jr. reported in The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette that DuPont “would replace drinking water for all Parkersburg-area residents whose water contains more than 14 parts per billion of a mysterious chemical called C-8.” (Some independent studies now say a safe level of exposure to PFOA in drinking water is 1 part per trillion.) Dry Run used to flow gin clear. “When you have a community of that size, and you’ve got several thousand people employed there, and multiply that by the families and their relatives — it’s very upsetting.” Some folks were unsure of what to make of Deitzler. The group looked at all existing studies and conducted new ones on 70,000 impacted community members from around the Parkersburg area. A movement to grant rights to the environment tests the power of local control, Rethinking ORSANCO: How the agency’s role as steadfast defender of the Ohio River has changed over time, The complicated history of the Kinzua Dam and how it changed life for the Seneca people, ‘Unbuilding’: What might happen if dams are removed in the Ohio River watershed, High waters, more hazardous cargo in the Ohio watershed complicate the job of keeping the waterways safe, A Pittsburgh-area test case in working across political boundaries to address flooding. The water in Parkersburg, where most of the plaintiffs lived, initially fell just below that threshold. They would nuzzle him as he scratched their heads. “I said to her, ‘We’ve already had our water contaminated once. A collective decision was made to use the money won in the class-action suit to conduct an epidemiological study in which nearly 70,000 of the 80,000 plaintiffs stopped into one of six clinics set up throughout the community, provided their medical histories and offered their blood. Though Chemours, a spinoff company of DuPont, now operates the Washington Works plant, DuPont maintains a presence in the community. The companies settled about 3,550 personal injury claims arising from the leak of perfluorooctanoic acid, which is also known as PFOA or C-8, from its plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. “See how that’s all wallered down? It was a matter of “not wanting to bite the hand that fed you.”. “This is the hundred and seventh calf that’s met this problem right here. This means that the City must actively manage storm water to the new EPA and DEP standards. The calf was engulfed in a black, humming mist. People who didn’t know him very well called him Wilbur, but friends and family called him Earl. Tommy Joyce, the mayor of Parkersburg, is bullish on West Virginia: “We’ve got enough coal to light the world, gas to heat the world and brains to run the world.”, Fellow Parkersburg High grad Brian Flinn, an engineer, worked for DuPont for eight and a half years; he worked with the raw materials of Teflon. As a nonprofit news organization, our future depends on listeners like you who believe in the power of public service journalism. In the flames, a calf lay broadside, burning. It wasn’t just his cattle dying. That calf had died miserable. Here’s what we learned. It wasn’t his first. It had paid for the 150 acres of land his great-grandfather had bought and for the two-story, four-room farmhouse pieced together from trees felled in the woods, dragged across fields, and raised by hand. That’s why they called it Dry Run. “I don’t understand them great big dark red places across there. . Hawkins, who now lives in the Washington, D.C., area, views his Partners in Education experiences somewhat differently today: “It wasn’t a partnership; it was a page from a public relations playbook. It looked, at most, a few days old. Candace Jones, a neighbor and longtime friend of Roettger’s, said she hates the perception that the community has been divided between the DuPonters and everyone else. “Dark Waters” — a legal thriller starring Mark Ruffalo, with a script inspired by a 2016 New York Times article — tells the epic story of the DuPont corporation’s failure to inform residents of the Mid-Ohio Valley of the considerable health risks of a perfluoroalkyl substance [PFAS] called perfluorooctanoic acid, or C8, for its chain of eight carbons. People were picking up jugs and cases of bottled water. It was small and ephemeral, fed by the rains that gathered in the creases of the ancient mountains that rumpled West Virginia and gave it those misty blue, almost-heaven vistas. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK)- West Virginia has hit the big screen once again, this time in the movie “Dark Waters” but not everyone is a fan of the feature film. Darlene said that when she and Joe are out around town, “there are a lot of whispers behind your back. The smell was odd. Where they should have been smooth, they looked ropy, covered with ridges. Today, she has high cholesterol. That looks a little bit like cancer to me.”. Danzey was a competitive swimmer growing up. “Isn’t that lovely?”. Sure, he paddles in it, but “I try not to get it on me” and never swims in it. Now more than ever, your commitment makes a difference. “How would you like for your livestock to have to drink something like that?” he asked his imagined audience. He panned again: a bonfire on a grassy slope, a pyre of logs as fat as garbage cans. “This cow died about twenty, thirty minutes ago,” Earl said. They were each paid $400. 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