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Toms River : a story of science and salvation
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Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals, that culminated in...
Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals, that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping.
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- Creator
- Dan Fagin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, DC : Island Press, [2015]
- ©2013, 2015
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 542 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1610915917, 9781610915915
- OCLC
- ocn910912008
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Marking time -- The Ice Cream Factory. Pirates ; Insensible things ; First fingerprints ; Secrets ; Sharkey and Columbo at the Rustic Acres ; Cells ; On Cardinal Drive -- Breach. Water and salt ; Hippies in the kitchen ; The coloring contest ; Cases ; Acceptable risks ; Friends and neighbors -- Counting. Two wards, two hits ; Cluster busting ; Moving on ; Invisible trauma ; A cork in the ocean ; Expectations -- Causes. Outsiders ; Surrogacy ; Blood work ; Associations ; Legacies
Subjects
- Drinking water -- Contamination -- Health aspects -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
- Cancer -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
- Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
- Water quality -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
- Toms River Watershed (N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.