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Article: MIGRANT WORKERS HEARD NOTHING OF PESTICIDE DANGER.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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The year the state Department of Ecology found a carcinogenic pesticide in the water of five migrant labor camps here in rural Whatcom County, Lydia Guzman never heard a word about it.
Neither did any of the other 635 migrant workers the state estimated were living at the camps in 1988.
The workers and their families, employed over the summers to pick raspberries and strawberries, received markedly different treatment from the state than did the homeowners and farmers in the area, who were offered bottled water at state expense.
``They never said anything to us,'' said Guzman, 47, who was lived for several years at a camp with a well that had ...