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Toms River is a municipality in Ocean County, New Jersey, USA. The Swiss company Ciba (later Ciba-Geigy and Novartis) built a chemical factor producing dyes and later other chemicals in Toms River in 1952. The enthusiastic welcome gradually turned into complaints and eventually outrage. Toms River had the misfortune of hosting also another hazardous site due to illegal dumping of Union Carbide (later Dow Chemicals) waste. The careless dumping of solid and liquid hazardous waste polluted the nearby river, the soil, the ocean, and the groundwater and caused suspicion of a childhood cancer cluster. The two sites were included in the Superfund program that identifies and cleans up contaminated sites in the U.S. Both were in the top-60 list of the worst polluted sites.
The families with childhood cancer were represented by Jan Schlichtmann in negotiations between the chemical companies. He was also a major player in another groundwater contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, which produced also a book A Civil Action.
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See also
- T.E.A.C.H. Toxic Environment Affects Children's Health, a citizen website
- TOXMAP
- en:Styrene-acrylonitrile resin
- New Jersey Department of Health: Environmental and Occupational Health Surveillance Program
- U.S.EPA websites and reports
- Five Year Review Report, Ciba-Geigy Chemical Corporation Superfund Site, Toms River, 2003
- Second Five Year Review Report, Ciba-Geigy Chemical Corporation Superfund Site, Toms River, 2008
- NPL Site Narrative for Ciba-Geigy Corp.
- Five-year review, Reich Farm Superfund Site, Toms River, 2003
- EPA Superfund, Explanation of Significant Differences: Reich farms
- EPA Superfund, Record of Decision: Ciba-Geigy Corp. 2000
- Ciba Superfund site fact sheet
- Reich Farm Superfund site fact sheet
- Publications
- Screening-level risk assessment for styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN) trimer detected in soil and groundwater.
- Toms River, New Jersey: is Ciba-Geigy responsible for the high rate of childhood cancers?
- Identification of drinking water contaminants in the course of a childhood cancer investigation in Toms River, New Jersey.
- Public health partnerships addressing childhood cancer investigations: case study of Toms River, Dover Township, New Jersey, USA.
- The Dover township childhood cancer investigation
- Department of Health, NJ: Toms River Township Childhood Cancer Investigation
- Toxicology and carcinogenesis study of styrene-acrylonitrile trimer in F344/N rats (perinatal and postnatal feed studies) · Abstract · Full report
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