As Garfield Superfund site raises chromium concerns, NYU researchers plan exposure study

Members of URGENT in Garfield meeting protesting chronium

According to nj.com:

GARFIELD — The federal Environmental Protection Agency will begin work in the coming weeks to determine how far a pool of cancer-causing chromium that sits beneath a Superfund site in a residential neighborhood has spread.

At the same time, a team of researchers from NYU's School of Medicine is hoping to begin work educating residents on the impacts of the contamination on public health, and testing their toenails for traces of the metal.

It turns out our toenails keep better records than government agencies sometimes.

 "There's no information," said Miguel Reyes, a member of the community group URGENT Garfield that's turned up at public events to protest the government's handling of the site. "People need to be held accountable. Nobody's putting the blame on anybody, and we need to investigate if the city fumbled the football."

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http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2013/03/as_chromium_contimation_concerns_loom_nyu_researches_plan_to_test_toenails.html

"Nobody's putting the blame on anybody, and we need to investigate if the city fumbled the football."          -Miguel Reyes, Pres. of URGENT