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+1 for Bubbaramfan!

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The city of Carson will be having an open townhall meeting concerning the proposed Charger/Raider stadium on June 22nd at 6:pm at the Carson Civic Center. the MC will be am980 "The Beast" sports talk show host Fred Roggins. Carmen Policy will be giving a presentation.

As many of you already know, I live in Carson, just four blocks from the proposed stadium site, a former landfill and toxic waste disposal site. An NFL stadium would probably double the value of my home and the surrounding neighborhood. However this is not the first project we residents have been told is a "done deal", giving us residents hope we may finally get what our property is worth, only to be let down. The NFL spent over 3 mil in 1999-2000 exploring the feasibility of an NFL stadium at this site and quickly found out about the EPA and Superfund remediation, and awarded Houston the expansion.

I and several of my neighbors plan to attend, and hopefully get to ask questions. I believe the fans and the residents of Carson are being mislead. They have continually given the impression the site is "construction ready", when, in fact, it is not. As a taxpayer, I want to know who is paying for it. I will also ask to see records of where the Calif. State Board of Health and the EPA have signed off on construction. I know neither have, because full remidiation has not been completed. I intend to be VERY vocal.

Moklerman, you touched on the pilings. Its one of the points of debate. Driving pilings through 40 to 60 feet of liquified garbage, rusting 55 gallon drums and buried toxic pools to shore up the foundation could end up doing the opisite, releasing more methane and toxic sludge to the surface. I;m going to do my damndest to get some answers to these question. If any of you posters here can think of any questions for me to ask, feel free to post them or PM me. (I'm assuming they will let us ask questions, I have a hunch they may not want to hear such questions).

This is great stuff right here, bubba.

It may be a good idea to float some of your questions to Roggin before the meeting. There must be a way of writing them into him.