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I wanted to ask a question... I was looking back through our well testing after 2 1.2 years since my daughter's sudden onset and passing of AML *5 days total symptoms, then diagnosis, then passing the next night with a 283000 wbc - she was 4 yrs old; I think I found something interesting, but not exactly sure...
I had already received confirmation 10 days after her death by a private lab I hired that there indeed was Tetrachlorethylene, Radiation and Benzene found in our well, but the county's labs never confirmed any number higher than the EPA norm, which by the way is based on a 35 year old healthy male. Regardless, the CDC told me that yes, while those contaminants were indeed found in our well and 2 of 3 were directly related and known to cause her type of Adult Form Leukemia, that they did not feel they were at a high enough level. The Tetrachloretyhelene had come from a spill a few years earlier which was only 2/3 of a mile away and had effected 90 private wells and was 60x greater than the safe drinking water level. Regardless, I was going through the labs from the county again and saw something strange.
They never gave me ranges for the tests. They simply said every thing had been tested at ug/l and against MDL standards.
The odd thing is that out of all of the volitile organic compouns on the test, 1/2 of them are scored at PPB - Parts per Billion. the other half at PPM - Parts per MIllion.
To convert ug/l to mg/l you would divide by 1000 and multiply for the opposite result.
Now, 1 mg/l = 1 ppm and 1 ug/l = 1 ppb
If that is the case, how can they properly give me data not converted to match the EPA's scale for each toxin. Instead they put a U or an E, pretty much saying it is there, but at a lower level or between the level.
When I pulled the data myself, those that scored for example, Ethylene Dibromide which scored a .25 ug/l. The EPA says anything over a .05 ppb is too high.
If 1 ug/l = 1 ppb, isn't that 5x the safe amount? or am I missing something. If it is, this is the same fuel based product associated with some cases in Fresno recently and knowing that Benzene can also be a fuel product, really does not surprise me. I am terribly concerned as my youngest child, now 3 1/2 was just found to have consistent chronic, non iron deficient anemia.
She is actually having a Colonoscopy and an Endoscopy on the 26th, but frankly they have thrown about 7 possible things at me and she is having other symptoms now.
I am in need of some definite help.
Thank you.
Dawn
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> From: hope4kids2usa@...
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:39:23 +0000
> Subject: [ChildhoodCancerTheCause] Update on Mercer Rubber plant, Trenton Times
>
> http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1158898101284820.xml&coll=5Hopewell
> told cleanup to start next year
> Friday, September 22, 2006
> BY DARRYL R. ISHERWOOD
>
> HOPEWELL BOROUGH -- As state officials scramble to determine if
> contamination from Hamilton's former Mercer Rubber plant caused cancer
> in hundreds of residents, another case of contaminated groundwater has
> quietly simmered in nearby Hopewell Borough.
>
> Residents of Somerset and La fayette streets in this placid borough
> have been living with the knowledge that groundwater run ning under
> their homes has been contaminated with Trichloroe thene (TCE) from the
> former Rockwell Industries plant on Hamilton Avenue.
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>
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>
>
> According to state Department of Environmental Protection officials,
> TCE levels as high as 400,000 parts per billion were found in the
> groundwater near the former plant. The state cleanup standard for TCE
> in drinking water is 1 part per billion.
>
> To clean the water, beginning in 2007, consultants will pump millions
> of gallons of groundwater from the underground aquifer and treat it in
> a treatment plant before discharging it into a nearby stream. There is
> no timetable for the completion of the cleanup, but an official form
> the DEP said it will likely take years before the groundwater is clean.
>
> Rockwell, which was involved in various machining operation that
> included manufacturing taxi me ters, operated in Hopewell form the
> early 1900s until 1975, before vacat ing the Hamilton Avenue site.
> Kooltronic Inc. purchased the site and operated it until 2001, when
> Rockwell repurchased the factory to begin the cleanup. It has since
> been turned into an office complex called Hopewell Center.
>
> As a result of the contamination, officials have also warned residents
> that their homes may poten tially be contaminated by gas formed by the
> TCE.
>
> Consultants for the former manufacturer have begun testing the homes
> on the roads bordering the former plant, including Somerset, Lafayette
> and Elm streets for the gas, which may have seeped into their homes
> through a process known as vapor intrusion.
>
> As many as 18 homes have either been tested or will be tested, said
> John Persico of Blasland Bouck and Lee, a private Cranbury
> environmental consulting firm. So far, vapor removal systems have been
> installed in three homes and the company has purchased two homes on
> Somerset Street, rather than attempt to remediate them. Those lots, at
> 19 and 21 Somerset St., will be the site of a filtration plant
> designed to clean the groundwater.
>
> Levels of TCE in the vapor ranged from about 8 micrograms per cubic
> meter to 50. The state standard for a safe amount of TCE in the air is
> 3 micrograms per cubic meter.
>
> Last night, officials from the state Department of Environmental
> Protection, state health department and Blasland held a pub lic
> information session to inform residents of the cleanup of the area.
>
> CONTINUED 1 | 2 Next
> Hopewell told cleanup to start next year
> Page 2 of 2
>
> State health officials assured residents that there is not a risk form
> short-term exposure to TCE. Whether long-term risks exist, the
> officials said, has yet to be determined. A study is under way, they
> said. Officials did not give a timetable for the completion of the study.
>
> About 50 residents and borough officials attended the meeting and many
> had questions about how the cleanup will affect their lives. The
> meeting became heated as some residents expressed concern about
> property values in the area and how the cleanup would affect home
> sales. Many came to demand that Rockwell purchase all homes on the
> block rather than take years to remediate the area.
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>
>
>
>
> "I put my house on the market in April and I had three buyers right
> off the bat," said Brenda Goeke, a Somerset Street resident. "But once
> they asked for my disclo sure, they didn't want it anymore. Are you
> going to come to bat for me to help me sell my home? You're telling me
> my property is all right, but it's not all right, it's going to take
> 50 years to clean up."
>
> Harry Agin, who also lives on Somerset Street said he has TCE levels
> of 73 parts per billion in a shallow well in his basement.
>
> "I have lived here for 21 years and I have been breathing this for 21
> years," he said. "Why would anyone want to buy my house? There is a
> plan to get rid of the TCE down the street, there is a system to get
> rid of the TCE in my basement and someone is going to want my house?"
>
> The problem came to light in the late 1990s. Soil contaminated with
> TCE and other chemicals and metals was discovered and removed from the
> factory site and a vacant lot across the street. According to Persico,
> removing the soil eliminates the potential for future TCE
> contamination once the groundwater cleanup is complete.
>
> The issue picked up steam in 2000 after residents on The Kings Path,
> in nearby Hopewell Township discovered the water contamination. That
> year the township connected the 14 homes on the road to the borough's
> public water supply, which draws from wells outside the plume of TCE.
>
> According to the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
> Registry, there is little indication that TCE causes cancer in humans.
> But exposure to the chemical can cause respiratory and heart diffi
> culty as well as central nervous system and liver problems.
>
> State environmental and health officials have been dealing with po
> tential contamination of air and water from the former Mercer Rubber
> site in Hamilton. That site operated for more than 130 years in the
> township and residents fear that what they perceive as high levels of
> cancer in the neighborhoods around the plant are a result of the
> contamination.
>
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I had already received confirmation 10 days after her death by a private lab I hired that there indeed was Tetrachlorethylene, Radiation and Benzene found in our well, but the county's labs never confirmed any number higher than the EPA norm, which by the way is based on a 35 year old healthy male. Regardless, the CDC told me that yes, while those contaminants were indeed found in our well and 2 of 3 were directly related and known to cause her type of Adult Form Leukemia, that they did not feel they were at a high enough level. The Tetrachloretyhelene had come from a spill a few years earlier which was only 2/3 of a mile away and had effected 90 private wells and was 60x greater than the safe drinking water level. Regardless, I was going through the labs from the county again and saw something strange.
They never gave me ranges for the tests. They simply said every thing had been tested at ug/l and against MDL standards.
The odd thing is that out of all of the volitile organic compouns on the test, 1/2 of them are scored at PPB - Parts per Billion. the other half at PPM - Parts per MIllion.
To convert ug/l to mg/l you would divide by 1000 and multiply for the opposite result.
Now, 1 mg/l = 1 ppm and 1 ug/l = 1 ppb
If that is the case, how can they properly give me data not converted to match the EPA's scale for each toxin. Instead they put a U or an E, pretty much saying it is there, but at a lower level or between the level.
When I pulled the data myself, those that scored for example, Ethylene Dibromide which scored a .25 ug/l. The EPA says anything over a .05 ppb is too high.
If 1 ug/l = 1 ppb, isn't that 5x the safe amount? or am I missing something. If it is, this is the same fuel based product associated with some cases in Fresno recently and knowing that Benzene can also be a fuel product, really does not surprise me. I am terribly concerned as my youngest child, now 3 1/2 was just found to have consistent chronic, non iron deficient anemia.
She is actually having a Colonoscopy and an Endoscopy on the 26th, but frankly they have thrown about 7 possible things at me and she is having other symptoms now.
I am in need of some definite help.
Thank you.
Dawn
> To: ChildhoodCancerTheCause@yahoogroups.com
> From: hope4kids2usa@...
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:39:23 +0000
> Subject: [ChildhoodCancerTheCause] Update on Mercer Rubber plant, Trenton Times
>
> http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1158898101284820.xml&coll=5Hopewell
> told cleanup to start next year
> Friday, September 22, 2006
> BY DARRYL R. ISHERWOOD
>
> HOPEWELL BOROUGH -- As state officials scramble to determine if
> contamination from Hamilton's former Mercer Rubber plant caused cancer
> in hundreds of residents, another case of contaminated groundwater has
> quietly simmered in nearby Hopewell Borough.
>
> Residents of Somerset and La fayette streets in this placid borough
> have been living with the knowledge that groundwater run ning under
> their homes has been contaminated with Trichloroe thene (TCE) from the
> former Rockwell Industries plant on Hamilton Avenue.
> Advertisement
>
>
>
>
> According to state Department of Environmental Protection officials,
> TCE levels as high as 400,000 parts per billion were found in the
> groundwater near the former plant. The state cleanup standard for TCE
> in drinking water is 1 part per billion.
>
> To clean the water, beginning in 2007, consultants will pump millions
> of gallons of groundwater from the underground aquifer and treat it in
> a treatment plant before discharging it into a nearby stream. There is
> no timetable for the completion of the cleanup, but an official form
> the DEP said it will likely take years before the groundwater is clean.
>
> Rockwell, which was involved in various machining operation that
> included manufacturing taxi me ters, operated in Hopewell form the
> early 1900s until 1975, before vacat ing the Hamilton Avenue site.
> Kooltronic Inc. purchased the site and operated it until 2001, when
> Rockwell repurchased the factory to begin the cleanup. It has since
> been turned into an office complex called Hopewell Center.
>
> As a result of the contamination, officials have also warned residents
> that their homes may poten tially be contaminated by gas formed by the
> TCE.
>
> Consultants for the former manufacturer have begun testing the homes
> on the roads bordering the former plant, including Somerset, Lafayette
> and Elm streets for the gas, which may have seeped into their homes
> through a process known as vapor intrusion.
>
> As many as 18 homes have either been tested or will be tested, said
> John Persico of Blasland Bouck and Lee, a private Cranbury
> environmental consulting firm. So far, vapor removal systems have been
> installed in three homes and the company has purchased two homes on
> Somerset Street, rather than attempt to remediate them. Those lots, at
> 19 and 21 Somerset St., will be the site of a filtration plant
> designed to clean the groundwater.
>
> Levels of TCE in the vapor ranged from about 8 micrograms per cubic
> meter to 50. The state standard for a safe amount of TCE in the air is
> 3 micrograms per cubic meter.
>
> Last night, officials from the state Department of Environmental
> Protection, state health department and Blasland held a pub lic
> information session to inform residents of the cleanup of the area.
>
> CONTINUED 1 | 2 Next
> Hopewell told cleanup to start next year
> Page 2 of 2
>
> State health officials assured residents that there is not a risk form
> short-term exposure to TCE. Whether long-term risks exist, the
> officials said, has yet to be determined. A study is under way, they
> said. Officials did not give a timetable for the completion of the study.
>
> About 50 residents and borough officials attended the meeting and many
> had questions about how the cleanup will affect their lives. The
> meeting became heated as some residents expressed concern about
> property values in the area and how the cleanup would affect home
> sales. Many came to demand that Rockwell purchase all homes on the
> block rather than take years to remediate the area.
> Advertisement
>
>
>
>
> "I put my house on the market in April and I had three buyers right
> off the bat," said Brenda Goeke, a Somerset Street resident. "But once
> they asked for my disclo sure, they didn't want it anymore. Are you
> going to come to bat for me to help me sell my home? You're telling me
> my property is all right, but it's not all right, it's going to take
> 50 years to clean up."
>
> Harry Agin, who also lives on Somerset Street said he has TCE levels
> of 73 parts per billion in a shallow well in his basement.
>
> "I have lived here for 21 years and I have been breathing this for 21
> years," he said. "Why would anyone want to buy my house? There is a
> plan to get rid of the TCE down the street, there is a system to get
> rid of the TCE in my basement and someone is going to want my house?"
>
> The problem came to light in the late 1990s. Soil contaminated with
> TCE and other chemicals and metals was discovered and removed from the
> factory site and a vacant lot across the street. According to Persico,
> removing the soil eliminates the potential for future TCE
> contamination once the groundwater cleanup is complete.
>
> The issue picked up steam in 2000 after residents on The Kings Path,
> in nearby Hopewell Township discovered the water contamination. That
> year the township connected the 14 homes on the road to the borough's
> public water supply, which draws from wells outside the plume of TCE.
>
> According to the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
> Registry, there is little indication that TCE causes cancer in humans.
> But exposure to the chemical can cause respiratory and heart diffi
> culty as well as central nervous system and liver problems.
>
> State environmental and health officials have been dealing with po
> tential contamination of air and water from the former Mercer Rubber
> site in Hamilton. That site operated for more than 130 years in the
> township and residents fear that what they perceive as high levels of
> cancer in the neighborhoods around the plant are a result of the
> contamination.
>
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