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Coalition for Health Concern, INC.

Contact
Mrs. Corinne Whitehead
1091 Us 641 North
Benton, KY 42025-7439
corinne@vci.net
(270) 527-1217

Activity: Clean water, clean air, and safe healthy communities

Geographic location: Tennessee River, Ohio River, Cumberland River, Mississippi River and West Kentucky, and Southern Illinois

Brief activity description: The Coalition for Health Concern, Inc., is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization founded in 1985, whose membership shares an interest in the protection and conservation of the natural resources of Kentucky. Clean water, clean air, and safe healthy communities which promotes a healthy economy is our focus and objectives.

Primary goals or focus:

• Water quality improvement
• Other (please specify):
• Calvert City chemical complex; Paducah DOE Gaseous Diffusion Plant; factory hog farms

Projected outcomes/impacts, if known: 1) radioactive and chemical contaminants dumped into tributaries from Paducah DOE plant; 2) hog factory waste 4 counties; 3) chemical waste from Calvert City, KY monitoring and education

Activity type:

• Research
• Policy
• Education

Scale of activity:

• Regional

Lead organization(s)/organizer(s): Coalition for Health Concern

Other partners and participants: Regional Association of Concerned Environmentalists, southern Illinois

Timeline/duration: Since 1985 and continuing
Projected or real startup time: Sites are so contaminated that clean up will not be accomplished.
Projected ending time or goal deadline: N/A

Funding sources:

• Members

Follow-up activities that will/might result from this activity: Force reduction of contaminants released

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