[CPEO-BIF] Pompton Lakes, New Jersey cancer study - in the area of the DuPont VOC plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State finds elevated cancer rates in pollution plagued Pompton Lakes 
neighborhood

BY JAMES M. O’NEILL AND ELAINE D’AURIZIO
The Record (NJ)
December 11, 2009


Kidney cancer rates in women and non-Hodgkins lymphoma rates in men are 
significantly elevated in a Pompton Lakes neighborhood perched above 
contaminated groundwater, according to a new study issued Thursday by 
the state Health Department.

The kidney cancer rate has been elevated for 30 years and the 
non-Hodgkins lymphoma rate has been elevated for 13 years, the report said.

Neighborhood residents have lived for years above toxic chemicals that 
have been vaporizing through soil and potentially into their basements. 
The pollution has migrated south from a DuPont munitions plant closed in 
the mid 1990s.

Because the two cancers were not elevated for both men and women, the 
state cannot make a conclusive link between the higher rates and the 
chemicals found in the groundwater plume under about 430 homes. Still, 
the report says that "the contaminants can not be ruled out as a 
potential cause of the elevated rates." It noted that those same 
chemicals - the chlorinated solvents TCE and PCE - have been linked 
specifically to kidney cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoma.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/local_environment/State_finds_elevated_cancer_rates_in_Pompton_Lakes_neighborhood.html


See also
http://nj.gov/health/eoh/cehsweb/index.html
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-15/1260497706174050.xml&coll=1
http://newgreenmedia.tv/2009/12/11/ngm-breaking-news-update-pompton-lakes-study-shows-high-cancer-rates-from-dupont-contamination.aspx

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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