2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:24:54 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Pompton Lakes, New Jersey health survey
 
Health survey underway in Pompton Lakes

BY LESLIE SCOTT
SUBURBAN TRENDS (NJ)
FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Residents who live in the area of contaminated underground water in the borough have been asked to participate in a health survey.

The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) will conduct the survey. Residents will be notified about the survey by mail before it arrives.

In late 2009, a DHSS analysis revealed that there were elevated rates of kidney cancer among women and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among men who lived above the local contaminated groundwater between 1979 and 2006.

DuPont contaminated the area when it operated a munitions factory in the borough from 1902 to 1994.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ 138762589_Survey_aimed_at_Plume_residents_.html

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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
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