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    Lawsuit alleging cancer advances

    Court Decisions  •  Sanitation  •  Pelham Bay, Bronx

    Families near Pelham Bay landfill claim infants’ cancers caused by chemicals at dump. Sanitation closed its 81-acre landfill in Pelham Bay, Bronx in 1979 following 16 years of operations and increasing complaints over odors and a yellow mist emanating from the site. In 1983, the state declared the dump an inactive hazardous waste site prompting the City to sue 15 corporations in 1985, alleging that the corporations illegally dumped hazardous chemicals. Later that year, Sanitation signed a consent decree with the state, admitting that the groundwater was contaminated and that it had allowed illegal dumping. The City was later awarded several million in clean-up costs.

    Bronx residents began to complain to the City of a link between the landfill and local residents’ cancer. The concerns generated two City studies; both found no increased incidences of cancer in adjacent Bronx neighborhoods when compared to the rest of the city.

    Despite these findings, 23 families sued the City, alleging that diagnoses of acute lymphoid leukemia, Hodgkin’s and other cancers were linked to the landfill. The families submitted an expert’s study that found the levels of acute lymphoid leukemia to be 3.4 times higher in children living closest to the landfill, and toxicologists’ reports listing the human carcinogens found at the landfill and potential routes of exposure. (more…)

    Tags : 2006 NY Slip Op 4373, Nonnon v. City of New York
    Date: 07/15/2006
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