‘Clean water is a right’ — Citizens protest TCE contamination.
The protest was organized in response to the release of a 1999 Combined Preliminary Assessment / Site Inspection Report with supporting documentation released by MDNR in late May 2017.
Armed with homemade signs and the undeniable First Amendment right to gather peacefully in protest, citizens of Camden County flocked to the downtown square in Camdenton Monday evening for a public demonstration designed to bring awareness to the ongoing chemical contamination affecting residents.
The protest was organized by the Camden County Contamination Board, a public Facebook group that has grown to more than 1,100 members in the last three months.
The lagoon and well no longer serve the city.
Approximately 30 citizens of all ages filtered in and out of the July 3, 2017, demonstration that lasted from 5-7 p.m. in front of the Camden County Courthouse.
Protest signs, carried by both young and old, were aimed at Camdenton City Hall as well as the state and federal governments.
Because some citizens were protesting water and air quality unrelated to the manufacturing facility, the fact that the demonstration was held at the courthouse within city limits was an appropriate location.
“Clean water is a right!” a young man yelled.
“Clean water is a right!”