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Hi all,

Just thought I'd put my 2 cents in.I know of a few other sites in NJ that

had toxic chemical plants that are now " cleaned up " and the towns

want to build schools,or housing on the leveled lots. My question is

even though the EPA says they are clean, how do we all know what

happened 50 years ago in the soil and how it would affect our

children and other generations?In the town (southern bergen county NJ)

where I grew up there was a plant that made soap and other things

across the tracks in the next town over. Untill 10 years ago the EPA

so called cleaned it up and built condo's on it. Many towns were made

up of industries that were chemical, and either dumped pollutins in

the river or burned them from a smoke stack, or dumped them. My

sister when she was alot younger used to go over to the creek on the

other side of the road from my house to look for toads and tad poles,

and small fish. She loved animals. She later told me that she saw 3

legged frogs and mis shapened fish in that pond. Anyway to make a

long story short, I found out recently that a preschool in my town

had a cancer cluster many years ago, my dad was on the parent board.

Many parents called in the EPA and they did a search but didn't find

anything in the air or soil. Many of the children went onto the high

school. I talked to my girlfriend who I went to high school with, and

found out that many of my classmates had died of leukemia or brain

tumers. How sad. I had seen some of them on the 10 year reunion, but

missed out on the 15 yr one. Jeanne

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> > Hi Kathy,

> >

> > I'm so sorry to hear all you have been through and can't imagine

you

> > and the word " unpopular " in the same sentence. You are amazing.

> >

> > I advocate to bring our children a voice -and knew you would

> > probably be one of the few brave enough to respond to my message

to

> > help us stand together to bring our children a voice.