[CPEO-BIF] "Why are kids in Waycross [Georgia] getting cancer?"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Why are kids in Waycross getting cancer?
GHN Special Report on Child Cancer: Part One

by Brenda Goodman and Andy Miller
Jointly reported by WebMD and Georgia Health News
October 20, 2016 


Fourteen-year-old Lexi Crawford was attacked by lower back pain so sharp that she couldn’t even sit up to eat. Her mother had to bring her food while she was lying flat on her back. Doctors in Waycross, GA, the town where she lives, thought it was a kidney infection. But after months of antibiotics didn’t clear it up, a visiting doctor in the local ER suggested an X-ray.

exi’s house sits on the corner of Hamilton and Brunel streets in Waycross, a town of about 15,000 people. Drive east on Hamilton, and within a block, you’ll see rusty pipes sticking up out of the ground like straws. These are monitoring wells, and they are planted in empty fields that border Hamilton Street behind a chain-link fence.

Railroad company CSX Transportation owns the fields — part of the sprawling Rice Yard complex in the center of town — and the 755 acres beyond them.

The wells have been there since the early 1990s to monitor an enormous spill, or plume, of toxic chemicals that has been moving underground for decades.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.georgiahealthnews.com/2016/10/kids-waycross-cancer/

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