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I for one do not question AT ALL that Portland is polluted. Sixteen months ago I was diagnosed with severe asthma which went into pneumonia. My naturopathic doctor has people calling her night and day with respiratory afflictions. People in the library come to me and ask if i have TB or worse...no, its just the eco-friendly air of Portland.

When I called the EPA to ask why they think I cannot breathe, they answered me glibly, oh, you're the first person to call about bad air....then after calling some friends they told me they experienced the same denial.

the fact that Bush allows his auto industry buddies to sell cars requiring less filtering of toxic emissions is responsible for much of the dirt and black particulates raining down on my southwest home from the I-5. Children on the next block have to be carried up the stairs...they cannot breathe. The auto transgressions have been written up often by WW.

When i go to hang up my clothes the lines are black with guck and when i see this i think i do not want to eat whatever i would plant in my garden...having been planted for the past 53 years.

In speaking to people in NW portland I believe they are more concerned with their property values, than with their capacity to breathe...we have come to a sorry state when we insist in living where the poisons emitted by ESCO are less important to us than the resale value of our homes.

The doubts in the comments here posted are testimony to the unwillingness to take this bull by the horns and do something for the quality of the air we breathe.

who thinks that Ron Wyden stood under the Burnside Bridge for his health in order to broadcast that the benzene levels are FORTY times higher than safe...he would never have publicized that without substantial proof.

If there is a place where citizens/victims can vent and volunteer to clean up this mess, let me know ASAP.....so I can share the info with my friends, and we can all breathe better.

gail in southwest portland

posted 5 years ago
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