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DATE: FRIDAY, May 18, 1990                   TAG: 9005180844
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Short

TERRY VOWS TO PUSH FOR CREEK CLEANUP

Attorney General Mary Sue Terry trudged through a field in her high heels Thursday to get a better view of polluted Peak Creek.

"There's pretty dramatic evidence of runoff from an industrial site going into the creek," Terry said as she stood by a culvert at McCready's Lumberyard, watching reddish water trickle toward the creek 50 yards away.

The state Water Control Board, the Department of Waste Management and the local health department all have been keeping tabs on heavy metals leaching into the creek from the old Allied Chemical site. The Control Board has asked Downtown East Inc., the limited partnership that owns the site, to stop the runoff.

"I assure you we'll be following up on this and doing everything I can," Terry said. - New River bureau 


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