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Rev. Michael D. Blackwell, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 804
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: CHAMBERLAIN & ST. MARY'S
Early in May, the people of Jackson, Mississippi, brought in not only the U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency, but also the Department of Justice, to address the polluted
drinking water and sewage problems that we've seen reported on the national news.
They also began collecting statements from residents to detail how much these issues
have adversely affected their lives.
In Flint, Michigan, the drinking water crisis suffered by residents there has resulted in 42
felony and misdemeanor counts against governmental officials—ranging from perjury to
official misconduct in office to extortion to obstruction of justice to willful neglect of duty to
involuntary manslaughter. The bacteria and lead leeching into homes from untreated
water from the Flint River resulted in at least twelve deaths and 90 folks sickened by
Legionnaires disease over a seven-year period.
Additionally, we all saw the terrible circumstances that occurred regarding that crumbling
Davenport apartment set for demolition without thorough investigation that made not only
the major radio and television news across the state, but also the national news. Such
negligence was certainly not benign!
These three instances of environmental injustice have parallels in the city of Waterloo
with regard to the unfinished business at the former Chamberlain property and the still
standing dilapidated structures at the campus of what was St. Mary's. These endangered
places among others that Rev. Larry Stumme and I have spoken about for the past two
City Council meetings—concerns that the residents in those areas have experienced and
conveyed for years—have not been extirpated. Meanwhile, the quality of life of the resi-
dents around those places have been steadily and substantively diminishing. Repeat-
edly, these individuals and families have been deprived of satisfaction and given words
of appeasement which inevitably fall on deaf ears from lack of proactive engagement and
transparent communication.
We come before you once again to insist on responsible redressing of these matters and
genuine accountability. Further deferral of ethical service on behalf of the people directly
affected in the foreseeable future will impel them towards assertive action, such as in
Jackson and in Flint, and as recently as today in Davenport, including effective media
coverage, to ensure evidentiary environmental justice is mandated and implemented.
Thank you. ���
Dr. Michael D. Blackwell and myself for the third time are addressing you,
who were elected to represent the people, but more importantly to make
Waterloo a safe and fair place for its citizens to live and raise a family. I
have addressed the issue of dilapidated, abandoned and unsafe
dwellings. For example, I pointed out the neglected home on E. 2nd street
damaged by fire in August of 2022, and the dangerously neglected multi
family dwellings in the area of Franklin/Vinton streets. I appreciate the
letter I received from the city attorney in response to these concerns.
However, I was using these properties as but an example of the scores of
such delapidated, abandoned and dangerous properties for the children
in the neighborhood, and adjacent properties which have experienced
lower the value of their property because of these eye sores. For another
example, I could point to the 5 year abandoned home at 207 Lafayette
which was named in a February Courier article as one of the most
endangered properties in Iowa. I still has not been corrected. Just a point
of clarification, Dr Blackwell and I are calling for a speedy and strong
correction of the scores of dilapidr+e.l mnrl/nr abandoned
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