Coldwater Creek link to cancer and other medical issues

Methane...Americans eat and shit all day...we have plenty.

I heard bacon give you cancer, I also heard picking your nose gives you cancer. I heard eating pickles and talking on a phone gives you cancer. So it seems like people just need a reason to freak out about something that they can not figure out.

Yeah so we should just ignore all possible health threats and live with our heads in our asses until we die a horrible cancerous death.

LOL wrote:

You hit that right on the nose. I would love to have one the owners of tanning salon to tell her to screw off,and it is none her business. She never says anything to a business that sells cigarettes or chew.
And I am to young to go her salon. It smells like a nursing home.

I know she says she used to own a tanning salon but I don't think she was ever educated on the pros and cons of tanning. Also, yes there are many chemicals in hair products used in beauty salons that are cancer related.

Reverend Vegas wrote:

Yeah so we should just ignore all possible health threats and live with our heads in our asses until we die a horrible cancerous death.

No, just don't get info about cancer from glorified hair dresser, or the American Cancer Society.

as a child 20-25 years ago i ate crawfish out of cold water, swam in the waters. to top that i played in the Uranium refinery/mine whatever it was in defiance. we just called it the aqua dome. im still not glowing. just a few weeks ago i replaced some concrete storm drains on mc donnell blvd. under the army corp of eng. that they removed due to Contamination.

Notice that there are no crawfish...anywhere in the county...anymore.
I used to catch them too...with paperclips and string.
That's part of the reason I want to move to Colorado.
I want my kids to play outside...be close to the earth. Like I did here in STL county as a child.

Man I hope you live ripe and old...but If I were you I'd at least get swiped with a Geiger counter. Just so you know for sure.

And for god sakes....a uranium mine? Do you mean like the refinery ponds? That's no bueno my friend.

You can get cancer from:

too much coffee

your cell phone

too close to the high power lines

your under arm deoderant

chew

too much fish

--guess what, people are living longer than ever.

They say coffee has alkaloids that prevent cancer.
They haven't proven a cell phone - brain tumor link yet...but who knows...maybe after many years something will turn up.

Reverend Vegas wrote:

Notice that there are no crawfish...anywhere in the county...anymore.
I used to catch them too...with paperclips and string.
That's part of the reason I want to move to Colorado.
I want my kids to play outside...be close to the earth. Like I did here in STL county as a child.

Man I hope you live ripe and old...but If I were you I'd at least get swiped with a Geiger counter. Just so you know for sure.

And for god sakes....a uranium mine? Do you mean like the refinery ponds? That's no bueno my friend.

I hear the mountain air gives you cancer. Watch out.

Yeah I'm just paranoid. I guess the Crawfish moved out West with the white flight. They know that black folks love crawdad dinners.
It's totally not because we've polluted everything to the point where it cant support crustaceans or any other aquatic species.
Hey, it could only help your property value right?

Reverend Vegas wrote:

Yeah I'm just paranoid. I guess the Crawfish moved out West with the white flight. They know that black folks love crawdad dinners.
It's totally not because we've polluted everything to the point where it cant support crustaceans or any other aquatic species.
Hey, it could only help your property value right?

lol at reverend vegas! thats great! i also grew up playing in cold water creek, but in the section located in st.ann and breckenridge hills before the airport. we also caught crawdads, but in the late 80's they all died off. nobody els knows this but a trucking company that hauled all the dioxin soils out of times beach was located along the creek, they washed out those trucks every night into the creek.

get a life wrote:

The sky is falling, what shall we do?
The air we breath has contaminants, the water we drink is full of chemicals, the car you ride in is a death trap, the planes you fly in are under inspected and poorly maintained, the rain has acid, the air has smog, the food you eat has been irradiated or chemical treated, the meat you eat has growth hormones injected, the second hand smoke is lethal, the environment is dangerous for your fetus, the sounds we hear or damaging our hearing, the power lines overhead are giving off electro magnetic current, the cell phone you use is giving you brain cancer, the coffee you drink is giving you stomach cancer, the smoke you breath is giving you lung cancer, the sex you have is giving you HIV, the this and the that is going to doom you today, tomorrow or next week.
Where does it all end, and we can peacefully and happily all live forever and ever.
100 years ago we died in our 40's
50 years ago we died in our 50's
25 years ago we died in our 60's
now we are living well past 70 and 80
won't be long and we will average 90 and 100
Maybe our grandkids will be the first to live forever.
But, who is going to pay?

I find your statements to be a long list hyperbolic rhetoric.

Air contaminants have varied and still do depending on the period and location. The same goes with water contamination.

Actually if you have been following the recent findings, the life expectancy is declining.

Your entire list of "sky is falling" alarmist statements is just a lot of nonsense that I could pick apart piece by piece.

But why waste the time?

I think people like you are a big part of our problems and absolutely no part of any kind of solution.

People who say "Amen" to your unintelligent screed are as foolish as you.

When did being a "conservative" come to be someone who is anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-academic, anti-education, anti-rational and most importantly someone who is against proceeding with caution?
I always thought proceeding with caution was one of the key factors to being "conservative".

Today's "conservatives" would make the conservatives of 50 years ago and further back pull out their hair. They seem to have more in common with the raging mob than with considerate and contemplative individuals who favor a slow and cautious approach to things.

Marcus Welby wrote:

Many years ago (possibly 20) there was a study and a report in the Post-Disgrace about a disproportionate increase in cancer among children in a subdivision just west of the Innerbelt between Frost and Pershall. You might want to check the Post's archives. Like the areas immediately around the airport, these were dumping grounds for nuclear waste during WWII. Starting about 10 years ago, there has been intense contamination cleanup along McDonnell Blvd near Eva. For what it's worth, the start of Coldwater Creek is in the drainage underneath the airport.

The source of Coldwater Creek does not start under the airport. I have visually identified the creek to as far south of the airport as Sims Ave south of Midland Blvd in Overland.

This write- up is loaded with pertainant info.

http://survivethejivealive.blogspot.com/2010/...

"Three thousand people live within a one-mile radius of the airport site, according to DOE estimates. From the airport, Coldwater Creek flows northeast for 15 miles, touching the communities of Berkeley, Hazelwood, Florissant and Black Jack before discharging into the Missouri River. The city of St. Louis drinking-water intakes at Chain of Rocks, which supply water to hundreds of thousands of people, are five miles downstream from where the Missouri joins the Mississippi."

Anyone who lives w/ in 20 miles of this should be very, very concerned.

Chuck Knight wrote:

This write- up is loaded with pertainant info.
http://survivethejivealive.blogspot.com/2010/...
"Three thousand people live within a one-mile radius of the airport site, according to DOE estimates. From the airport, Coldwater Creek flows northeast for 15 miles, touching the communities of Berkeley, Hazelwood, Florissant and Black Jack before discharging into the Missouri River. The city of St. Louis drinking-water intakes at Chain of Rocks, which supply water to hundreds of thousands of people, are five miles downstream from where the Missouri joins the Mississippi."
Anyone who lives w/ in 20 miles of this should be very, very concerned.

Please explain the concerns. If you say drinking water, please explain why the tests are not positive for contaminents.
Explain your concerns.

explain the concerns wrote:

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Please explain the concerns. If you say drinking water, please explain why the tests are not positive for contaminents.
Explain your concerns.

How impertinent of you to ask pertinent questions!

There you go again, relying on science, knowledge and rational thinking!

Can't you see that irrationality, borne of fear and ignorance, is the appropriate way to live one's life. And when in doubt, just seek divine guidance or watch Fox news!

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle

Resident wrote:

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle

How true!
Another one of those amazing facts is that the team with the better score seems to always win!
Funny how that works.
It is so comforting to know that we have "leaders" in America, like Dan Quayle, who possess such deep insights into serious matters.

I spent 8 years in Frostwood subdivision ( 10 till 18 years of age) right next to the creek and work 40 years next to the clean up site at Eva, brown rd and the railroad track in Bldg 102. Right in the middle of the start of the creek and dumping grounds.
Had cancer in my throat and lymph nodes.