CRIPPLED CREEK?... AT DIXICO PAPER

The Dallas Morning News archives is a gold mine for info about known environmental problems in the Metroplex. Thanks to a wonderful investigative report who told me to include the archives in my quest for info about Oak Cliff.
Dixico, the focus of my search, was on Polk St. very near the present DART station at Clarendon, bordering a creek. The name of the creek when it reaches the Marsalis zoo area is Cedar Creek. This water path looks to me like a combination creek/storm runoff culvert-with extremely steep sides. Perfect for carrying industrial contamination through poor, residential neighborhoods straight to the PCB-laden Trinity River.
In 1988-89, Oak Cliff citizens waged war with Dixico over a hazardous waste incinerator in their Elmwood neighborhood. A lawsuit was threatened by the city and the permit Dixico sought from the Texas Water Development Board was withdrawn.
However, residents continued to question use of benzene, toluene, various alcohols, xylene; and leaking storage tank(s) were discovered. Also, the DMN reported that even as the incinerator plan was trashed, Dixico was free to ask for a SPECIAL PERMIT for burning from city, state, and federal govt.
Now who in their right mind would grant that? Well, you never know...Records cite burning violations, that's for sure.
Chemicals used and burned by Dixico are known today to cause leukemia and lymphoma and probably other forms of cancer. Dioxides produced by plastic manufacturing cause esophageal cancer, as evidenced by research on agent orange which was done after the Gulf Wars. A very serious situation for those who lived in the Dixico area...
Amazing that EPA, TCEQ, and even the city of Dallas seem to know so little about Dixico. Dallas records are disposed of or can't be found. EPA's records, so far, do not present a congruent picture over time with a clear statement of the outcome of government intervention. TCEQ has 800 pages of records on a storage tank, and the water development board has nothing, saying no info was maintained on wells in this old Oak Cliff area.
If you live in this area-or did in the past-wouldn't you like to know what's in your neighborhood soil and in that creek water? I would-especially since I know from personal testimonies that kids will skim the sides of that creek bank and follow it all the way to the zoo. 'Has been going on for years.