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A toxic obsolete pesticide burial site about to slide into a village

Article by WECF member AWHHE for magazine "Pesticides News"

17.11.2005 |Gero Fedtke

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Significant contamination has been found around soil where 500 tonnes of obselete pesticides were buried. The burial site is on a hill next to a village, the entire area is land-slide prone.

Elena Manvelyan, L. Simonyan and E. Anahasyan of Armenian Women for Health and a Healthy Environment (www.awhhe.am) report on the situation and on actions being taken.

Read the full article here.