Eleven hundred residents of Greater Columbus have joined Ohio Citizen Action’s good neighbor campaign with Georgia-Pacific by displaying yard signs that read:  “Georgia Pacific: Close the Pit.”  The signs refer to a football field-sized pit where Georgia-Pacific dumps toxic wastewater from its Watkins Road formaldehyde plant.
Ohio Citizen Action and Southside neighbors believe Georgia-Pacific should follow the recommendations of court-hired technical consultants and replace the pit with a modern wastewater treatment facility.

Just like the air pollution that comes from Georgia-Pacific’s antiquated wastewater dump, the yard signs don’t have boundaries.  Residents of Worthington, Clintonville, Victorian Village, Upper Arlington, Hilliard, Westerville, Reynoldsburg, Powell, Southfield, Bexley, Whitehall, Gahanna, Lewis Center, Dublin, German Village, Pickerington, and Canal Winchester put up the signs.
 
We want to thank all the people that are helping to ‘follow the air pollution’ in the greater Columbus area, including the volunteers who helped drive the signs around town and those who attended community meetings and made phone calls.  For more information on how you can get involved in the campaign, please contact Leontien Kennedy at our Columbus office.