cancer in castalia.

cheryl miller wrote:

I lived on lester st. there isn't a house on lester or adams that I know of that hasn't had someone die of cancer or has cancer. My own father had prostate cancer.... I think it is in the water system. Not the water system that is in place now. But before that water system 30-40 years ago. My whole neighborhood has been wiped out by cancer. The ones that didn't die. Are dealing with it now.

PITSfounder wrote:

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Hello Cheryl,
I've been researching closed dumps (landfills) and cancer clusters for 25 years and I want to help you find if there is an environmental cause to your cancers. Sand and gravel pits were often used as dumps after the soil was mined. A topographical map from the 1960s shows quite a few sand pits in and around Castalia. A current aerial map shows that some of those pits have been filled. The topo map also showed areas of "depression" near your Lester Street neighborhood. I don't know if these depressions were pits but it does indicate that the earth was disturbed. One "depression" area is just south of Adams Street. When was your neighborhood developed? Have any serious illnesses been reported in another neighborhood bordered by Maple Avenue, Bogart Road, Barden Street, and Tiffen Ave (101)? On the topo map there were sand pits in the middle of those streets and the current aerial map appears to show that the pits have been filled. You mentioned the water system of 30 years ago. Did Castalia use groundwater for drinking? Do you know where the drinking water wells were located 30 years ago? Does Castalia presently use groundwater for drinking?

Sandusky_Ohio wrote:

<quoted text> I lived on Lester St. for 7 yrs.I had heard from neighbors there that the Cement St.park(north of Lester) was a former dump...