I lived too close to a toxic dump

[lu ann]

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<HR style="COLOR: #cc0033" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->I grew up living in the typical suburb, like I thought everone else did. When I was 13 years old my mother was dx. with BC. Nine years later she had colon cancer and 4 years after she died.

Our neighbor next door had non-hodgekins lymphoma and the neighbor that bought his house had lung cancer. They both died. My dad later died from lung and the lady across the street died from ovarian. I have been fighting Breast Cancer for 16 years.

I lived in our family home for 22 years, which is located 1.38 miles from the landfill site. Too close for comfort. When my husband and I got married we lived right on the edge of the land fill for 18 months. There was about 15 houses left after they built the interstate 480 bridge that spanned Valley View, from Garfield Heights to Independence. Many of these families have and still suffer rare cancers and diseases, or they died. My 42 year old friend and mother of 4 boys under 10 has stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

The area is a prime spot for developement, as it is about 20 minutes from downtown cleveland and other areas of interest. A developer offered and bought the existing homes for 3-4 times what the property was worth. They built a huge retail developent in Garfield Heights on top of the hill. They also built resteraunts and a movie theatre down in the Valley. Last winter they had to close several businesses because of methane leaks.

If anyone wants to read the article, it is long but very informative. Just follow the instructions.

1. the link is www.clevescene.com (http://www.clevescene.com/)

2. you will come to their web page, Cleveland Scene News Page

3. In the far upper right hand corner click archive circle

4. Put the date January 10, 2007 in the archive box and click search

5. Go to archive Search box to the left and Key in the issue January 10, 2007(in drop down menu)

6. Then go to author and key in Klaus, Jared(in drop down menu)

7. Then Key in words (Tomb with a View)click search

8. Archive Search Results to the left should be Feature 1

5. Keywords Tomb with a View, Feature 1

Let me know if you could not view the web-site.
Lu Ann
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Lu Ann
Thank you for sharing this.
It is thought provoking that the actual environment in which we live in is so important to our health. I do believe that there is a cause and effect. I wish there were more studies done nation wide on cluster groups of cancer.

[cafe1084]

Lu Ann,

That is certainly no coincidence! It reminds me of a show I watched where childhood cancers were 500x the US rate along power lines somewhere down in Texas. It is frightening to contemplate what we are being exposed to everyday!

I just learned over the last several months that the water where I spent the first 3 years of my life was toxic. My dad was a marine and we lived on base at Camp Lejeune, NC. A dry cleaner was dumping chemicals, which then found its way to the water supply for several housing areas. This went on from the 1950's through the early 1980's, affecting up to one million civilians and servicemen/women. The chemicals are proven to cause birth defects and several different cancers, including breast. My sister and I both have reproductive problems, mine starting as early as 13 with cysts on my ovaries and fibroid tumors. We both have literally no enamel on our teeth and her baby teeth crumbled in her mouth as they broke through the gum. I've had 3 miscarriages. Our children are all healthy, thank God! I don't know that this caused my breast cancer and I also understand it is very easy for me to lay blame somewhere, anywhere, as to why things like this happen to people. It may just be the plan laid out for me. I may never know, but in an odd sort of way, it eases my mind to know that it could have been someone else's fault and the blame doesn't lie with anything I may have done or didn't do.

If any of you lived on or near the base during these years, check out the site. Right now, since this has been made public, thousands of people are bombarding the lawyers office with calls and posting on the website, blaming everything from depression to ADD to anxiety on the water they drank and bathed in. These 2 sites should get any interested parties started.

www.watersurvivors.com (http://www.watersurvivors.com)

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/tce_pce.html

Steph C