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Rayonier, SmurfitStoneContainer, NassauCountyFlorida
Rayonier, Smurfit Stone Container, NassauCountyRayonier, Smurfit Stone Container, Nassau County Florida Nassau County Florida, Nassau Co. Attorney Mike Mullens Rayonier Paper Mill Partners In Crime Fernandina Beach Florida

I bought property in Yulee Fla. About 14 years ago. After about a year we started haveing a lot of unexplained health problems. We lived on the property about 8 years and the Co. Decided to build a school just down the street from our property.

We were told at that time, by some local residents that the school was being built on top of an old dump site. We were also told that the property we lived on was also an old dump site. We tried to find out about it but we were told that it was just a place where people used to dump household garbage and that it was nothing buried, it had been cleaned up.

The county was going to use well water at the school and dug a well about 30 feet from the school. Well, they had to cap it off because the water was so contaminated that it could'nt even be used for irrigation. So, they decided to run county water from A1A which was about a mile to the school.

So, they started digging for the water lines to be put in. My grand daughter, 3years old at the time, was fasinated with the equipment and I would take her out to watch them dig. When they got close to my property, they ran into over 10 feet of burried garbage.By the way, the digging was on the opposite side of the street from my house. So, we started asking questions and were told that the dump was an old Nassau County opperated landfill.

I went to the nassau Co. Atty who was Mike Mullens at the time. His words to me was, Well there's no records so that frees us. He also denied that the County had anything to do with it. Well, after a lot of lies and a lot of seeking advice and information from the old timers in the area. I found out that the paper mills used to dump chemicals there. Rayonier, Smurfit Stone Container. I also found out that the road was built across the dump. It extended under my property. Walt Gossett who was the county coordinator at that time was fired because he falsefied documents on that very dump and orderded the work to be completed without EPA being contacted.

I found out that Nassau did infact operate the dump. I also found out that 55 gallon barrels of chemicals were dumped into the dump from the mills.

To make a long story short, I have a 27 year old daughter that has cancer. I have a 5 year old grand daughter that has learning dissabilities, she has to take breathing treatments daily. She has neurological problems, she will eventually have to have an operation to repair her hips and be put into a body cast for up to 22 months. I have a 7 year old grand daughter that has lupus. She was diagnosed at 3 years old. She has JRA. She does'nt grow very well. She has almost died twice. The problems they have were contacted when my daughter was carring them. My wife had to walk away from her job after 22 years because of her health problems. I myself am haveing a lot of health issues. I have a rash all over me now.

My biggest problem is that no one will help us get the justice that we so rightly deserve. One of the problems is that the county has a one hundred thousand dollar lawsuit cap in place to protect them. The mills run this county and no body wants to argue that point.

I know for a fact that they get away with whatever they want. They use many many chemicals and they are not regulated. They own their own chemical companys. They could care less about human life, especially the lives of children and new borns. They have already proven that. They deny being involved in any way. But I can prove they did it.

This is just a drop in the bucket. I have learned a lot about how they opperate and I think they should be brought down a notch or two.

It's time for us to be heard. It's time for Justice
Thank you for this site. And thank you for letting me tell my ripoff story.



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