A 5-mile walk from Brighton Beach to Leif Erikson Park with rally and music at Leif Erikson

10:00 a.m.  Gather at Brighton Beach-63rd Ave. & Congdon Blvd., just past Lester River

11:00 a.m. Walk Started

1:30 p.m. Walk finishes at Leif Erikson Park

2:00 p.m. Rally & Music at Leif Erikson Park

Speakers

Rick Defore, Dultuh American Indian Commission Wis. State Rep. Frank Boyle

Invited: Red Cliff Environmental Program

Former Mayor Herb Bergson

Mike Stitch, 1990 contract barrel retriever

MUSIC

Singer/Songwriters Rachel Kilgour and David Rovics

We want clean water: get the barrels out

Barrels of Military Toxic Waste in Lake Superior Near Duluth

An estimated 1,457 barrels of “classified” Honeywell Corporation’s military waste were secretly dumped by the Army Corps of Engineers into Lake Superior between 1957 and 1962.  Even after official searches, 75% of them have never been found.  The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has won its 3rd federal grant to try to locate and investigate the approximately 16 separate dumps that cover 75 sqr. miles.  Some of the 55-gallon drums are within one mile of the drinking water intake for the City of Duluth.  Comprehensive sediment testing near these drums, to determine if their toxic contents have leaked, has never been done.  The drums contain PCBs, lead, cadmium, barium, chromium and most likely radioactive wastes.  The government has recovered only nine barrels, and it has found only seven of at least 16 dump sites.  The Red Cliff band’s upcoming investigation of the drums-dumped between 1957 and 1962 and holding some 415 tones of waste-will determine if they pose a threat to human health and the ecosystem.  please join the Lake Superior Day Walk for the Lake, to celebrate the Red Cliff success and to demand official recognition of the potential threat posed by the waste.