Poisoned Places: Tonawanda, N.Y.
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- It's difficult to definitively link any one person's illness to air pollution from a particular plant. But the concerns about the health effects of Tonawanda Coke's toxic pollution rallied a small group of people in Tonawanda - most of them sick - to force complacent regulators to clean up their air. www.npr.org/201...
I've lived in North Tonawanda and Tonawand my whole life. The cancer rate around here is ridiculous. There are also a lot of sites where toxic materials were dumped. The most notorious was Love Canal in Niagara Falls. It seems Western New York is a pretty toxic place. It's kinda scary to think that this kind of stuff goes on without any repercussions.
E Rock I was born at Degraff Memorial Hospital in the 1977 & my dad worked for Roblin Steel for 19yrs...
We lived on Ward Rd we werent to far from the Am vets center. When Roblin Steel closed down we ended up moving out of state ...
My Dad died in 98 at age of 53. i always suspected that it had something to do with the chemicals my dad breathed in for years that lay dorment ... Dr diagnosed him with Parkinson's but there has never been anyone in my dad's entire family who ever had Parkinson's....
My Grandfather on my Moms side died of Parkinson & he was born & raised in Niagara Falls..
I'm in Texas, but was researching moving to this area because it looks beautiful (the lakes, rivers, mom and pop diners, etc), and also housing is affordable for lower income people like myself. Texas has plenty of problems, but it's getting too expensive for regular people here. I already have an autoimmune disorder and a pre-cancerous blood problem that have to be monitored. I read about Love Canal, and everyone's impression here was that it was cleaned up, when actually the waste was too toxic to move, so the worst of it was reburied. Then to find out they mixed radioactive slag into the concrete, and that there's these poorly managed industrial waste sites all over the region. I lived by a Superfund site in Fort Worth where the Air Force dumped who knows what, and a little down the freeway is a fracking site, that is when my health really went downhill. I'd get a migraine every time I drove down the road by the military base. I'm so sorry, someone really should be held accountable. It seems like if a company or government can hire enough lawyers, they can get away with anything.
I remember the plant behind ballaz CT I lived in front of the tracks when I 7 yrs old I remember
Tonawanda/Kenmore is fine, it's NT and the Falls you have to worry about.
not in some areas
Tonawanda coke....
....and marijuana is still illegal
And it still is 8 years later
Ridiculous, it may help with the inflammation from cancer and autoimmunity that the people develop from all the toxins they're exposed to.
And all these years latter, it finally closed
Did they clean up the site or is it a Superfund now?
@npr i shared this with my dad who has 2 degrees in chemistry he was disgusted and said that the plant was breaking the law.
I got sick immediately after I exploring the plant. It’s still extremely hazardous. The amount of sludge and waste is incredulous.
how sick? my friend was planning on exploring it but i talked him out of it
Good people must stick together... It's up to us (all) to look out for each other!
91 tons a year? Dang!
I grew up for 17 years on James st. I watched our new cars get tiny rust dusting all over within months of buying. I never knew black dust was not normal dust in a house. I played in the fields off Mildred, Saywer, and Kenmore. I remember losing sneakers to black goo coming out of the ground. As I entered my teen years I realized these things were not normal. At 17 I moved across the river to Grand Island and realized how bad the air and quality of health were over in Graphite Gulch (this is the nick name locals give the area). I make jokes sometimes about healthy living saying if I don't glow after where I grew up, I never will. Though it is a joke, I still am concerned the years living there hurt me somehow.
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I read they'd burn the incinerators at night, so less people would notice the junk in the air than if they did it during the day, but people would wake up to soot on the cars. It's a shame, nature wise, I've always loved the area. I don't live there, but it's seems so beautiful and like it has so much potential, then these greedy businesses destroyed it. When I was on vacation up there, I wore white shoes because they were so comfy, but every evening, they'd be covered in soot. I recognized the smell as almost like diesel exhaust. Take care of yourself, and get your blood tests annually, if anything like high white blood cells or high levels of heavy metals is found, be persistent and get it investigated. My experience is many doctors will try to brush this off, you have to be your own advocate if something is wrong. I developed a pre-cancerous condition and autoimmunity from living by a Superfund site in Texas, at least I finally got a proper diagnosis after years of being told it was "in my head", my blood always looked like I had an infection, but I never had a fever. At least now I can get it monitored and a few medications and dietary changes have helped a bit, even though there are no miracle cures out there for this stuff.
Rip i live here
I'm in Texas and never heard of this before. What is a coke plant???? I know large companies like this have very shady practices and pose health risks to the surrounding environment but I've never heard of this company before. They should pay everyone's healthcare bills and shut down operations
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blackwidow Redrum exactly I grew up in Lackawanna right next to Bethlelham steel plant
It's another byproduct of petroleum. Fellow Texan here, our former Governor, Ann Richards, did place some restrictions on our oil and gas industries, so we don't have some of the problems they do up North. But we do have plenty of toxic waste sites here, and our regulations are getting removed, unfortunately.
As you are traveling down Sheridan Dr. You can smell when you are coming into the Kenmore, Tonawanda Area. Right by the Police Station, ( before the overpass. a little before that. ) You start smelling it. It has been that way for many years. Nothing has changed. With all the factories you get emissions polluting the air. I could be blind folded and riding down the road and know when we were getting close to Tonawanda.
Me 70. When was a wittle kid my dad worked at Linden. Mom drove me to pick him up at work. The air was yellow cloud. My ma said, 'See what your dad has to breath every day?
He lived to be 90 and I miss him, and her every day.
They don't care! They don't live there! They need to be put into jail!
I moved away from Tonawanda in Jan 1983 to Houston, Texas. Since them My Mother, Father, Mother-in law, Father-in law, one of my good friends all died from Cancer. My father had a lung cancer that actually was skin cancer - so rare I cannot put the number here. I have friends and other family that have had cancer and still survived, so many I cannot count on all fingers and toes. All of these people were born, raised and died in Tonawanda, NY. I read some where that there are more concentration of chemical dump sites in the Tonawanda's than in the entire state of NY. Its in the water table so it will never get better. Niagara river was so polluted at one time that they forbid you to swim or fish in it. I am lucky I left the area when I did.
It's really a shame how these companies totally disrespect the environment with no regard to the living people and animals.
Every time I go to the East coast, it stinks. The air is sticky and everything is so dirty. I feel so sorry for the people who have to live in the Eastern U.S.
I wore my comfy white shoes on my vacation through the Northeast, every evening they were covered in what looked like soot. In the South, we get bad allergies, but the air definitely felt like I was breathing car exhaust the entire time I was on the East Coast.
@labidus74 Sadly, you can't just shut down a company, they were not aware of the air pollution they were causing to the neighborhood, therefor they are not obligated for a trail until proven otherwise.
they knew what they were doing
Talkin' mad shit for someone in cancer/asbestos distance!
So sad. Life in the Corporate States of America. UGH
Resources for first time home buyers are still listing Tonawanda and Kenmore as a great places to live in New York. Lower income people like me think we found a hidden gem because we need an affordable place to live.
I live here in tonadwna I got led poisoning because one of the homes
@hunnyboy173 Welcome to America, a free Capitalist country :\...
I almost got a job at 10:01 to cook back in 1999 I think. Glad I didn't. LMAO clean air San Diego