My family lived in Gilford Park. Our house was one off the Toms River. I learnt to swim in TR. (born in 1951). I learnt the word pollution from the signs warning us not to swim or crab. We swam and crabbed, until the river was so polluted nothing, but seaweed lived. I am one of seven children five of which are cancer survivors. The town officials were seeing $ signs. A new country club with a real nine-hole course. And to think the name Dover Township wasn't better than Toms River? PS: My 52-year-old nephew died of cancer two weeks ago.

69 families had to live with the tragic memories of losing their children. Thanks to the residents of Toms River for speaking up and fighting for their wellbeing.

This was my hometown. I grew up on the West side of town and went to school with the kids who lived in the neighborhood that backed up to the Ciba- Geigy site and I lived maybe two miles south of the Reich farm/ Union Carbide site. I was fortunate enough not to move to town until I was 12 in 1980 but my you ger sister was only 6 and has many more health issues than I do. We drank that water in the summer of 1986. Most town officials and the EPA had no idea. We would have known if they had. My father's best friend was the head if the EPA response team for toxic spills. My father was also involved in. county politics in the 1970's. The tragedy was that in the 1950's the EPA and Clean Water Act did not exist. The town officials were so desperate for jobs that they believed what they were told by company officials who KNEW what they were doing was wrong and a health problem. The plant was located there back in the woods designed for secrecy. The breaches and illness in the 1950-1980's were kept so quiet that few knew about any issues at all. If the waste pipeline had not visibly ruptured in 1984 the townspeople, who had moved in from 1963-1984 and made a sleepy little shore town a 98k town, would never have known. I lost a childhood friend who lived a few blocks from the corner of Bay Ave & Vaughn Ave to Cancer in her 30's. I also had a friend who was birn in Toms River with multiple disabilities and unusual physical deformities. My own parents had health issues and dued reletively young. God only knows what role the contaminated water played in their health issues and plays in my own. I will never know. Those Ciba-Geigy snd Union Carbide company officials, the driver who dumped the Carbide barrels, the water compny and town officials who knew in 1960 's and 1980's that the town water supply had been breached should be identified and in the case of 1986 should face jail time.

They settled chump change on the families & paid 92 million for the clean up?? That is outrageous!

Well this explains why my grandfather died at 58. Then my Dad at 51. He started to get sick at 33. My father would be 78 today, I know my father was sick his entire life.

Blame the politicians and Italian Mafia.

how can I find out the actual areas that were contaminated in Toms River and Manchester. I would like to move to the area, but would obviously like to avoid the contaminated areas

Re: Rare Eye Cancer Clusters Since 2009, the U.S. gov't has been releasing Wolbachia-infected Aedes into the environment en masse. However, I recently discovered that the "decay rates" of Aedes dates back to the '60s. For over 30 years, two teams (one in Kentucky; one in Australia) have been working on this. Either intentionally or not, I believe the root cause of many uveal melanoma cases (and other rare cancers) is Wolbachia genes in the blood. Since Wolbachia is found in insects and in the environment, these patients MUST have a broad-range PCR screen for Rickettsiales conducted on their blood and any excised tissues (ideally within the first week of symptoms). If I am right, we will see more of these cases July to November. When some Culex spp. naturally acquire Wolbachia, they become better vectors of diseases (and can transmit Wolbachia). Culex bloodfeed more from humans July - Nov, are overnight-active, and prefer open bodies of water (lakes, swamps, etc). They lay their eggs in rafts; so "clusters" of disease also makes sense. My petition to help (you never need to donate and exact info is not req'd): www.change.org/p/oncologists-and-pathologists-acute-inflammatory-response-gbs-uveal-melanoma-or-lymphoma-r-o-rickettsiales-wolbachia

They use to bring truck loads to the end of sliverton and dump there form the 60s to the 70s it’s been built in to a neighborhoods now

I know a LOT of people in Tom's River and as adults they are really strange. alcoholics, paranoia, idk. It's kind of odd.

@1janelaf

6 жыл бұрын

Their are quite few people in the Ocean County that have moderate to severe mental health issues as well. I speak from personal experience. We have family up in that area.

@corinnem.239

5 жыл бұрын

No ithe town is not full of alcoholics. Not any more than most. Alcohol is tightly regulated in NJ and there are not that many liquor stores per popululation.

@corinnem.239

5 жыл бұрын

@@1janelaf Your family area must be full of the original Piney population then. Most residents that are not native do not have large mental health issues. Only Pineys seem to have that from inbreeding. They are a very small part of the population in Ocean County.