Sunday, October 30, 2011

Residents, ex-Raymark workers worry about lingering health risks

Residents, ex-Raymark workers worry about lingering health risks
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Residents-ex-Raymark-workers-worry-about-2242271.php

"As a kid in the 1950s, Hugh J. Catalano played king-of-the-hill atop piles of toxic sludge dumped on Wooster Field and Short Beach Park. Bits of automotive brake linings and clutch facings in the dirt were buried treasures he and his boyhood friends hurled like boomerangs.

As an adult, Catalano worked for nine years at the Raymark Industries factory, where those asbestos-made car parts and polluted dirt mounds were produced."

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