[CPEO-BIF] "Mother: state Health Department should study birth defects near Air Brake site, " Watertown, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mother: state Health Department should study birth defects near Air  
Brake site

By CRAIG FOX
Watertown Daily Times (NY)
November 6, 2012

An Ogdensburg mother who grew up near New York Air Brake intends to  
make a formal request for the Department of Health to conduct a study  
on birth defects possibly associated with pollutants dumped years ago  
at the Starbuck Avenue plant.

Carol J. Molinari, whose two sons suffered from a rare brain illness,  
said Wednesday night she will send an email as early as today to  
James A. Bowers, a Health Department research scientist, to ask the  
department to investigate birth defects of children near the former  
Air Brake site, where toxic chemicals ended up in Kelsey Creek and  
other nearby tributaries.

...

During the two-hour meeting, Health Department and DEC officials  
repeated several times that they found the chemicals only on-site and  
possibly underneath an East Hoard Street home when the most recent  
environmental investigation was completed in 2008.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20121108/NEWS03/711089768

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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>
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