CALIFORNIA
Alameda County
Oakland - Verdese Carter Park neighborhood
Contra Costa County
Hercules - Bayside Village
Fresno County
Fresno Sanitary Landfill - neighborhood between Jensen, West, North, and Marks avenues
Los Angeles County
Calabasas - Saratoga Hills subdivision
North Hollywood - California Laurel homes developed by Kaufman and Broad
Monrovia - Tropi-Cal Mobile Estates
Monterey Park/Montebello - neighborhoods adjacent to closed Operating Industries Landfill
Palos Verdes - Homes near South Coast Botanic Garden and Ernie Howlett Park.
Pomona - Walnut Hills Mobile Home Park and Pomona Islander Mobile Home Park
Santa Monica - Mountain View Mobile Home Park
Wilmington - Imperial Mobile Estates
Marin County
Fairfax - Oak Manor Drive - cancer cluster
Mendocino County
Laytonville - North Road - cancers, respiratory illness
Monterey County
Casanova Oak Knoll - cancer cluster
Orange County
Fullerton - Los Coyotes Country Club neighborhood
Huntington Beach - Edison Community Park neighborhood - cancer cluster
Magnolia Street and Pacific Coast Highway neighborhood
Bolsa Chica condominiums by Mola Development Corp.
Orange - Goldenrod Lane and Crest de Ville homes
Rancho Margarita - Rancho Santa Margarita homes adjacent to former Trabuco Bombing Range
Yorba Linda - Kellogg Terrace condominiums
San Diego County
San Diego - Del Sur "green" community built on WWII bombing range
San Marcos - Elfin Forest neighborhood
Santa Barbara County
Goleta - Tajiguas Landfill on Calle Real adjacent neighborhoods
Santa Maria - Unocal Orcutt Tank Farm under homes on Palomino Drive
Solvang - Ballard Canyon Landfill adjacent homes
Solano County
Benecia - Southampton subdivisions
Ventura County
Camarillo - Via Pacheco and Paseo Montelena neighborhood
Oxnard - Oxnard Dunes subdivision, River Ridge subdivision, California Cove subdivision
Simi - Larwin Homes on Currier Avenue
CONNECTICUT
Hamden - Newhall Street neighborhood - cancer cluster
Southington - Black Pond neighborhood - cancer cluster
FLORIDA
Land O'Lakes - Suncoast Meadows Homes
Miramar (near Fort Lauderdale) - Hampshire Homes
Orlando - Vista Lakes built on WWII bombing range with live ordnance
Plant City - Park Road and U.S. 92 neighborhood cancer cluster
Seffner - homes near Taylor Road, Department of Transportation, and Hillsborough Heights landfills
Plant City - Park Road and U.S. 92 neighborhood - cancer cluster
Seffner - homes near Taylor Road, Department of Transportation, and Hillsborough Heights landfills
IDAHO
Moreland - neighborhood adjacent to abandoned Moreland Dump - cancer cluster
ILLINOIS
Chicago - Altgeld Gardens - cancers, lung and heart ailments, birth defects, miscarriages
Hillside - Homes next to Congress Development Company Dumpsite
LOUISIANA
New Orleans - Golden Plaza homes and Moton Elementary School - cancer cluster
Shreveport - Anderson Island homes - cancers, lupus
MAINE
Fairfield - Middle Road neighborhood - cancer cluster
Wells - Indian Trail subdivision
MARYLAND
Accokeek (southeast of Washington D.C.) - Manning Village by Ryan Homes
Baltimore - Annapolis Road homes and neighborhood park
MASSACHUSETTS
Ashland - Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump adjacent neighborhood - cancer cluster
Attleboro - Shpack Dump and Attleboro Landfill adjacent neighborhood - cancer cluster
Berkley - Cranberry Crossing - cancer cluster
Billerica - Iron Horse Park neighborhood - cancer cluster
Northampton - Glendale Road Landfill adjacent neighborhood - cancer cluster
Norton (Chartley section) - Shpack Dump and Attleboro Landfill adjacent neighborhood - cancer cluster
Pittsfield - Newell Street neighborhood - cancer cluster
Wilmington - Kelly Hill neighborhood - cancers, Hodgkin’s disease, leukemia
Woburn - Industri Plex, W.R. Grace and J.J. Riley Tannery Dumps - cancer cluster
MICHIGAN
Gaines Township, Genesee County
Swartz Creek - cancer cluster
Rochester Hills - Homes near Six Star Landfill (180 acres)
MISSOURI
Weldon Spring - Weldon Spring Park, formerly a radioactive dump - childhood leukemia
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Atkinson - Providence Hill neighborhood - cancer cluster
Gilford - Liberty Hill Road - cancer cluster
NEW JERSEY
North Wildwood - The Tides At Seaboard Point developed by K. Hovnanian Companies
Pitman - Alcyon Lake - adults who attended camp by Alcyon Lake - cancer cluster
Ringwood - neighborhood near Ringwood Landfill, Peters Mine - cancers cluster
Sayreville - Sayreville Landfill II, and Sayreville Landfill III surrounding neighborhoods - cancer cluster
South Amboy - O’Leary Boulevard homes
Toms River - Ciba-Geigy Chemical Dump contaminated community drinking water wells - cancer cluster
NEW YORK
Buffalo - Hickory Woods homes on coke waste from steelmaking operations
Dobbs Ferry - Mercy College Landfill on Hudson River adjacent homes
Endicot - Old Village of Endicott Dump neighborhood
Haverstraw - Warren Court subdivision
Hogansburg - St. Regis Reservation adjacent to General Motors Dump
Irondequoit - Lighthouse Pointe homes on top of former Rochester City Dump
New York City
Manhattan - World Trade Center built on landfill - cancers cluster
Bronx - Pelham Bay - Pelham Park neighborhood - leukemia and Hodgkin’s disease
Bronx - Throgs Neck - Ferry Point Park neighborhood
Bronx - Adlai Stevenson High School and surrounding neighborhood - cancer cluster
Battery Park City - 92-acre landfill and adjacent to World Trade Center
East New York - Spring Creek homes
Rikers Island - Rikers Island Prison
Staten Island - Fresh Kills Landfill and Brookfield Landfill surrounding neighborhoods - cancer cluster
Niagara Falls - Forest Glen Mobile Homes
Orchard Park - Barrington Heights subdivision built by Ryan Homes
Otego - Otego Landfill adjacent homes - cancers and birth defects
Vestal - Stewart Trailer Park
Long Island, New York
- three aquifers are sole source of Long Island fresh drinking water -
Hempstead - Merrick Landfill
North Hempstead - Port Washington Landfill
Oyster Bay - Old Bethpage Landfill, and Syosset Landfill
East Hampton - Montauk Landfill, East Hampton Landfill
Hauppauge, Town Of Islip - Islip Municipal Sanitary Landfill aka Blydenburgh Road Landfill
East Northport - Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center Landfill
Southampton - North Sea Municipal Landfill
Upton - Brookhaven, RCA Rocky Point, Heins, Pine Road Ecology and Yaphank dumps
OHIO
Garfield Heights - City View Shopping Center neighborhood - brain cancers and other illnesses
Tiffin - Tiffin Dump nearby residents - cancer cluster
Wright-Patterson AFB (outside of Dayton) military housing built adjacent to closed landfill in 1973
PENNSYLVANIA
Norristown - Forrest Avenue and West Elm Street neighborhood - cancer cluster
TENNESSEE
Dickson - Eno Road - TCE in drinking water wells - cancers, stomach polyps, ADHD
Toone - Velsicol Chemical Company Landfill nearby residents - cancers and other illnesses
TEXAS
Houston - Kennedy Heights neighborhood - cancers, lupus, birth defects
Southbend subdivision - miscarriages and birth defects
Acres Homes subdivision - cancer cluster
UTAH
Spanish Fork - Spanish Fork Ranch subdivision - cancer cluster
VERMONT
Springfield - Springfield Mobile Estates
VIRGINIA
Virginia Beach - Lake Archway subdivision
WASHINGTON
Seattle - Gas Works Park on Lake Union
Lake Washington - Quendall Terminal condominiums formerly Reilley Tar and Chemical Company refinery
Bellingham - Boulevard Park
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Spring Valley - Homes and American University on unexploded ordnance and chemical waste dumps.
Yorba Linda - Kellogg Terrace condominiums
ReplyDeleteI graduated from Esperanza HS in 1983
this site was cleaned up while we were in school
Big clouds of yellow orange smoke came from this site right into our school
We were ordered to stay in classrooms and gym during this cleanup
Everyone in the 1982-1985 grads were exposed
A large amount of the families of these student have children with a wide array of birth defects
Water on the brain
Club foot
Cerebral palsy
learning issues
and child death
We need someone to open a class action lawsuit for all these students vs. Unocal
They should have sent us home
This is ivery nteresting. I am a 1985 Esperanza graduate, I have been fighting brain tumors since 2006 and a good friend in my same class just passed away a few days ago from years of fighting cancer. We were both out on the soccer field when things got really bad. I remember the yellow orange haze you describe and remember commenting to him "this is getting really bad". I recently Google mapped our approx location on the field to the excavation hill and we were only 934 feet away from the dig just on the other side of Imperial Hwy. Anyother students out there dealing with similar crisis health issues should also comment here. Rocky, Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteRocky and Alan, I am so sorry to hear about your health issues. I am an EHS alum and one of my classmates Melody A. Olson just created an Esperanza High School Friends Facebook page. Another alum posted about the former toxic dump near the school and now there are a lot of alum posting similar comments to yours here! Please contact Melody to be invited to join the closed group. Thank you & sending well wishes and prayers to you & your families.
ReplyDeleteWe are wondering if there is a cancer cluster in our neighborhood in San Juan Capistrano, CA, where many neighbors have had and continue get very rare cancers. The neighborhood backs onto the city dump aside huge power lines. The new San Juan Hills high school is right next to us. How can I go about finding further information on this suspicion to have it looked at?
ReplyDeleteIn our small neighborhood, we have had cases of Lymphoma at 43, Multiple Myeloma at 78, brain cancer in two young women, one under 30, Pancreatic cancer, and more. On the street closest to the dump and power lines, all 5 houses lost someone and they all later moved away. The people in the 6th house moved because they couldn’t take it.