Author: REKO, H. KARL
Title: Not an Act of God: The Story of Times Beach [Missouri]
Description: St. Louis, MO: Self-Published, 1984. First Edition. Plastic Comb. "The story of five people caught in an act of God and then in a human-made disaster. An attempt to help the reader feel what the people of Times Beach, Missouri, felt and learn what they learned through their exposure to the careless handling of hazardous waste. Once the story has been told in the first chapter, the reader is asked to analyze with the author the implications of the disaster. This analysis is from a Christian perspective and falls into three categories: what the Ecumenical Dioxin Response Task Force did in the situation; the theological implications of how the secular and religious communities reacted to Times Beach; and common themes emerging from the story that may be duplicated in similar situations." - Introduction. pp. [16], ii, [2], 81, [13]. Grainy black and white reproductions of photos. Maps. "Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri. Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States. The town suffered a double-disaster when on December 4th, 1982, the day after the EPA completed its soil sampling, the town was struck by its worst flood in history when the Meramec River rose fourteen feet above flood stage." - Wikipedia. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this sobering work.; 4to. Good .

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