If you wonder why I have posted these pages, please read my preamble.
I have not updated these pages in a very long time. It is now time to resume the task. Sorry for taking so long to post information.
I am now using a message board service for our message board, our old one will no longer recieve new messages.Please feel free to express your opinions and post information there. The map is based on a map printed in the Asbury Park Press.
I intend to offer these pages as a clearinghouse of information for the Ocean County Cancer Cluster Concern, and as such have tried to supress any of my own personal opinions on these pages. But feel free to express yours.
The following is a table of contents. If you have anything at all to add, I'll gladly post any and all information. Just e-mail me.
1. Data and News Chronological Data (the Observer) Drinking Water Data Drinking Water Standards Interpreting Drinking Water Data Polluters Superfund Data State DEP Contaminated sites in Ocean County Drinking Water Analysis2. Opinion My Preamble Letters to me Action My own hypothetical research Progress in other areas How can you help? Related Political Action: Clean Water Law my task list4. Organizations and Phone Numbers To report your own childhood cancer case in Ocean County: please contact the county Health Dept. at (908)341-9700. To report your own adult cancer case if you have lived in Ocean County, please call Stephanie Cassell: (908)287-3890 after May 8. Latest Updates to this page. Information Links A short e-mail message about a nuclear bomb accident in 1961 in Ocean County. 4/24/96 Information on Radium Information on Radon 5/5/96 This is a list of the total incidences of childhood (0-14 yrs.)cancer county-by-county since 1988, and is part of the original state report. Please keep checking this site, since I intend to publish the full 72-page report page-by-page. Hunterdon residents may want to take a look at these stats.I am still working on the rest of the report. 5/8/96 This is the transcript of the Press Conference on the results of the water study conducted by the NJ Dept. of Health, only Commissioner Fishman's speech is transcribed so far. 5/9/96 The events of May 8 Included a Press Conference, An interactive television program and a town meeting. I am transcribing all these meetings and have provided a copy of the documents distributed.
5/10/96 I have scanned the letter from the Dept. of Health from last August which started the awareness of the crisis. I also have scanned the Health Dept. Report for childhood cancer. Both reports need work. The data is scanned in raw, and needs to be assembled, but you can read the results of the studies.
If anyone from the area is looking for Oceans of Love to report a childhood cancer on-line the E-mailaddress is "OceanoLove@aol.com".
