Monday, November 21, 2011

A Neighborhood in Peril: Garfield residents desperate to move, but bound to Superfund neighborhood

A Neighborhood in Peril: Garfield residents desperate to move, but bound to Superfund neighborhood
http://www.northjersey.com/news/134225348_Desperate_to_move_.html

"He called it his "man cave," a woodworking shop that was a respite from the two-bedroom apartment he shared with his wife and three daughters on Lincoln Place in Garfield.  The basement often flooded during a hard rain. And unbeknown to Riccio, that floodwater coated his basement with hexavalent chromium, a deadly carcinogen.  Riccio, 56, died of leukemia in May 2008."

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