top
Central Valley
Central Valley
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature

We need calls to DFG to help Los Banos Migrant Camp!

by Dan Bacher
Calls to the California DFG Director are needed urgently to help supply potable water at the Los Banos Migrant Camp. This action alert is from Jennifer Clary of Clean Water Action.
camp_photo.jpg
We need calls to DFG to help Los Banos Migrant Camp!

From Jennifer Clary, Clean Water Action, clary [at] cleanwater.org

Farmworkers and their families at the Los Banos Migrant Camp inMercedCounty
NEEDS YOUR HELP for SAFE DRINKING WATER!
Call Fish and Game today and tell them to allow the community to connect to the City water supply.

Fish and Game has refused to allow the community of farmworkers and children, including a Day Care, to connect to their water line that receives safe water from the City ofLos Banos. Every excuse that they have given has been mitigated and now they are just ignoring this community, their neighbors!

Even though they have some bottled water, the families are being forced to use the contaminated water bathe in and often to cook with or wash dishes or fruits and vegetables with water that is contaminate with Arsenic, Copper and Radionuclides. Kids and adults are getting rashes from this contaminated water. And now with the heat in full swing, many of their air coolers are failing because of the hard water that is causing them to break down. This would not happen with city water!

Help the community now by calling Fish and Game and telling them to be a good neighbor, and care not just about fish and wildlife, but about humans!

Call DFG Director Donald Koch at (916) 653-7667, fax (916) 653-7387 and/or email Director [at] dfg.ca.gov
Add Your Comments
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$135.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network