[CPEO-MEF] Shpack Landfill (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This site is part of the Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action Program, 
which address contamination from the nation's nuclear weapons production 
program. - LS]


Shpack landfill abutters unhappy with state's findings

By Kevin Tocci
Brockton Enterprise (MA)
January 17, 2006

NORTON - A cancer study meeting held by the state raised more questions 
than providing answers to residents who live near the contaminated 
Shpack landfill.

The study found that during a 21-year period which 13 cancer types were 
evaluated in Norton and Attleboro, the majority of the cases occurred at 
or near the expected rates. These numbers were based on the population 
of both towns and statewide cancer rates.

Suzanne Condon, an Associate Commissioner for Massachusetts Department 
of Public Health said she knows the landfill site has been a main 
concern for the residents in the area. She was aware that the community 
was looking for some certain statistics that her department attempted to 
deliver.

...

For the entire article, see
http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2007/01/17/news/news/news11.txt

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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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