Pollution And Health In The Garden State
20 February 2002 - 2:00pm
One woman explores the connections between pollution and health that have troubled so many residents of this industry-laced state.
"For years, chemical contamination in New Jersey has been unmatched in the nation. The state has more federal Superfund hazardous waste sites - 108 -than any other in the country. One mud-colored stream in Wood-Ridge, Berry's Creek, recorded the highest concentration of mercury found in freshwater sediments anywhere in the world. Health officials here have compiled unusually high cancer death statistics for two decades."
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Source:
New Jersey Record & Herald News, February 20, 2002
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