Why Is Park Board Trying To Kill Me?
Published in the Pulse of the Twin Cities by Ed Felien
"I like to play nine holes of golf in the morning during the summer, the back nine at Hiawatha. Last week I was playing and the groundskeepers were spraying the greens right in front and behind me. I got up to the clubhouse and found they were using Echo 75 WSP, a fungicide to keep down mold. I got to my office and Googled Echo 75 and found it was a dangerous carcinogen. Its acute hazard warning label is 1Danger, which means it is highly toxic and a dangerous poison.
The golf course warns away children and small animals, but what about the rest of us? What are we? Chopped liver?
This is the kind of poison that lasts for a long time. ... It has a cumulative effect. Once it gets in your body, it doesn't go away but eventually causes liver damage and pancreatic cancer.
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Silent Spring and Living Downstream should be required reading for anyone connected with the park system and concerned about the public welfare. Will it take a class action lawsuit to get their attention?"