[CPEO-BIF] Cancer at Hopewell Borough (NJ) TCE site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents take cancer fears to state
Worry 10 cases on street not a coincidence


BY JEFF TRENTLY
Trenton Times (NJ)
November 9, 2006

HOPEWELL BOROUGH -- Dean Carkhuff thinks it's more than a coincidence.

There are 13 houses on Lafayette Street, where he's lived with his 
family for 42 years.

Ten people have had cancer on his street.

Eight have died.

...

For Harry Agin, who lives on Somerset Street, the frustration is 
measurable: "I have 42 times the allowable limit of TCE in the air in my 
home that I have been breathing for 21 years," he said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1163048816136650.xml&coll=5
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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