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To: RetiredNow who wrote (146414)	10/24/2014 3:38:35 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

The Heart of Capitalism is a figment of your imagination.The Valley is built on public roads, staffed by public education, developed with federal grants, and only has clean water because public laws make the government the kidney which purifies the toxic blood. Cleanup of Silicon Valley Superfund site takes environmental toll Mar 17, 2014 Below some of the world’s most expensive real estate, in the heart of Silicon Valley, pipes and pumps suck thousands of gallons of contaminated water every hour from vast underground toxic pools. This story was produced in a collaboration between The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Guardian US. Giant industrial filters trap droplets of dangerous chemicals at the surface, all in the hope of making the water drinkable again and protecting the workers of tech giants such as Google Inc. and Symantec Corp. from toxic vapors. But that costly journey to the surface is only the start of a toxic trail with no clear end. Once it leaves Mountain View, Calif., the toxic waste gets shipped, treated and burned in places like Oklahoma and Arizona, discharging waste in small towns and on a Native American reservation, and in some cases creating even more harmful chemicals, The Center for Investigative Reporting has found. Along the way, waste treatment plants rack up environmental violations, records show. Byproducts created during treatment are shuttled from one plant to another. And then another. After crisscrossing the country, the waste even can end up right back where it started – at a treatment plant just a few miles away in Silicon Valley. It’s a shell game in which one environmental danger appears to be addressed, yet is moved somewhere else in the form of a new problem. “There’s really no such thing as throwing something away,” said Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Rusty Harris-Bishop. “You’re always throwing it somewhere.” cironline.org