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Yoshiyo0211 t1_ixibes2 wrote

Reply to comment by Irlydidnthaveachoice in Colonia High School soil and air tested again in continuing cancer probe by fraaankie485

Is it a possibility that it's not the school grounds but the residential areas in Colonia?

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Irlydidnthaveachoice t1_ixim60u wrote

From my understanding, the type of cancer comes from radiation exposure. There are plenty of radiation exposures in our daily life.

Radon naturally occurs and creeps into home's via cracks in the ground. Woodbridge is not in an area where this would be expected though, where the average is below EPA's 4 pCi/L threshold.

Although concerning and worthy of investigation, it appears, especially after the school tested negative and the general population cancer assessment determined that the cancer numbers are not an anomaly, it does not appear to be a cancer cluster

Edits: spelling

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Yoshiyo0211 t1_ixjg1ff wrote

Ah! Thanks! Useless info I've learned as a teen living in Perth Amboy from my Natural Science class in the early 2000s. Since Perth Amboy was famous for it's brick making and exterior decorations/facades due to the amt of clay available in the ground basements in Perth Amboy have little Radon.

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