"it was a vast environmental crime scene" - NY Times; I could SEE this landfill from my window....

[Smarmie Doofus]

...when I lived in Co-op City in the late 80's and 90's.

I'm wondering if any epidemiological studies were done on the approximately 60,000 people who lived in CC... which is about a mile from the giant toxic dump.

The people in the article are on the other side of the bay. Downwind ( I think) from the site.)



Posted this to NY forum this am (GD was closed) and was surprised by the degree of interest.

From Tuesday's NY Times:

>>>Kerri was 4 when she started having trouble walking. Justin was 5 when he got a nosebleed that would not stop. Danielle was 7 when her legs began to ache.


Michael Nagle for The New York Times

During the 1980s, the children all lived, played and swam in the shadow of the Pelham Bay landfill, a towering city dump in the Bronx on the shores of Eastchester Bay. For well over a decade, it was a vast environmental crime scene, where bribes to city workers opened the gates to an estimated 1.1 million gallons of illegally dumped toxic waste. By 1991, the three children were dead, taken by childhood leukemia a few years after their symptoms had appeared.

Their families — and the families of nine surviving children who also lived near the landfill and contracted childhood leukemia — sued the city, citing the incidence of disease in the area, and blaming the city for failing to halt the dumping and for taking years to clean up the site. Since then, three mayoral administrations, despite acknowledging the dump’s ugly history, stubbornly fought the suits for 22 years.

But with the cases now consolidated into a single lawsuit and a trial date next month looming, lawyers for the city have agreed to settle the claims for a total of about $12 million, Jeff Korek, one of two lawyers representing the families, said.>>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/nyregion/bittersweet-deal-in-22-year-fight-over-citys-toxic-dump.html?_r=0
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[hobbit709]

1. 12 million ain't anywhere near enough.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. And the lawyers will get a lot of it.

We just successfully, after a 6 year battle, won a lawsuit which ended attempts by a Fla. consortium to create an enormous landfill about 40 miles down the road.
they kept trying to convince us backwoods rubes that dumping the waste of 26 states east of the Mississippi would not cause any problems, and an environmental impact statement would be a waste of money.
3 of the 6 county commissioners who voted for the landfill were not re-elected during the prolonged lawsuit.

local citizens won a long hard fight.

[Isoldeblue]

4. Congrats and good for you, Dixiegrrrrl! n/t

[Downwinder]

3. The wind shifts. Everybody is downwind.