While living in Central Ohio, there was a big scare concerning the City of Columbus's trash burning power plant putting Dioxin in the local ecosystem. After much concern and research, the city found out that the diesel trucks servicing the trash burning power plant was the source for the increase in Dioxin in that area of the city. The power plant was shut down due to these finding, as well as the city finding out that this was not a good system for getting rid of trash.

For the last few weeks I have watched a long stream of diesel powered trucks carrying all sorts of materials and equipment to the pipeline construction site that is just below Somerton.

So all of these trucks that are using SR 800 have been spewing deisel exhaust most likely contains Dioxin. We have enough contaminants from past activities in our ecosystem without another company using us for for their ecological bad dumping grounds.

Dioxin is a nasty substance, we all had a lesson in what this could do to people from the use of Agent Orange, which contains Dioxin, during the Vietnam War.

Jerry Smith, Phd>
Somerton, Ohio