OPEN LETTER
Pollution Control Board
May 11, 2006
100 West Randolph Suite 11-500
Chicago, IL 60601
Dear Board Members :
A birth announcement from my grandniece from Jackson County Illinois arrived in
the mail about the same time as a Sierra Club article stating that one out of five women of
childbearing age in the US had high levels of mercury . My concern is that my grandniece ^~
where
may have
for
been
years
eating
fisherman
bass
have
from
been
their
cautioned
farm pond
about
only
the
a stone's
high level
throw
of
from
mercury
Kinkaid
in bassLake. .
.
l~3
An article in the Saturday, April 29 issue of the Chicago Tribune citing mercury
poisoning from coal-powered electric plants in the US says that Illinois is high in
contributing toward this problem with Chicago being a "hot spot
." And in the listing of
the five highest mercury contributing plants in Illinois, the Dynergy Midwest plant at
Baldwin (upwind from Jackson County and Kinkaid Lake) has the highest output of
mercury.
Your board is being presented with a proposal from the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency to reduce mercury by 90% in our coal fired power plants . While
Governor Blagojevich's support of this measure may be political, my own is personal, and
I am sharing this letter with the newspapers in hopes that other concerned citizens of
Illinois will e-mail that concern to you at www.JPCB .state.Il.i',a
.
I know that power companies will be fighting his plan, but I urge you to consider
the environmental health as well as the economy of our state .
Sincerely
~l T Gi ~`-
Ho
101
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Fairview Heights, 11
. 62208
618-397-8094
RECEIVEDCLERK','
; OFFICE
M!",'
t 2006
STATE OF ILLINOIS
Pollution Control Board
