Sat, Apr 27, 2002 - Page 4 News List

New laws to rectify old pollution problem sites

NOTORIOUS CASE Nobody wanted to try to clean up the polluted groundwater at the ex-RCA factory site in Taoyuan. Now the law is going to compel them

By Chiu Yu-Tzu  /  STAFF REPORTER

Lacking adequate legislation, the EPA urged Ever Fortune to complete the treatment of groundwater pollution. The landowner, however, just ignored the request.

The pollution received widespread publicity in 1998 when former workers from the plant were found to have a high incidence of various forms of cancers. Around 1,000 were diagnosed with cancer of whom about one fifth have already died.

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