[ RadSafe ] State of Missouri pursuing help for cancer-afflicted victims of Cold Water Creek radiation

[Brad Keck]

Roger,  USEPA surveyed this area in 2013, and concluded there was no excess of uranium decay products associated with the area.  As can happen in Missouri, there is a readily measurable radium content (as indicated by 214Bi in that survey) in the local geology. There is a strong belief locally that there is a cancer cluster associated with Manhattan era uranium processing and the environmental politics of the area are pretty intense, with some history (most notably, see "times beach" )..   Brad 



> On Sep 27, 2014, at 7:13 AM, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Seems like barrels of Uranium are unlikely to have caused cancer
> clusters like are being claimed for Cold Water Creek?  Certainly doubt
> that radiation from this Uranium caused these cancers.  Does anyone
> know anything more about Cold Water Creek?
> 
> Roger Helbig
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> Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:33 AM
> Subject: [New post] State of Missouri pursuing help for
> cancer-afflicted victims of Cold Water Creek radiation
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> 
> Christina MacPherson posted: "Radiation survivors receive government
> help  http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/09/26/cold-water-creek-radiation-government-help/16250253/
> ST. LOUIS COUNTY - A group of classmates, who are losing friends
> every day to radiation at Cold Water Creek,"
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> State of Missouri pursuing help for cancer-afflicted victims of Cold
> Water Creek radiation
> 
> by Christina MacPherson
> 
> Radiation survivors receive government help
> http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/09/26/cold-water-creek-radiation-government-help/16250253/
> ST. LOUIS COUNTY - A group of classmates, who are losing friends
> every day to radiation at Cold Water Creek, are getting the news
> they've been fighting for after three years.
> 
> The state of Missouri is asking the Federal Government for help.
> 
> The state wants the Centers for Disease Control, The Environmental
> Protection Agency, and the Army Corps of Engineers to send money and
> specialized resources to the survivors and people dying from
> radiation.
> 
> Carl Chappell's 43-year-old son has appendix cancer. The cancer
> effects about one in a million, but it's showing up in many of
> Chappell's son's high school classmates. Chappell's son used to play
> in the contributory of Coldwater Creek, near his Florissant home.
> 
> Radioactive materials from barrels of uranium from Mallinckrodt's
> Storage Facilities started seeping into Cold Water Creek. The uranium
> was used to make the first atomic bombs.
> 
> Janell Wright, a former McCluer Graduate, wanted to know why so many
> of her classmates were getting rare cancers. She and other classmates
> asked the state to test study the area. The results showed no elevated
> levels of cancer. Wright knew the study was flawed.
> 
> Wright and her friends asked the head of the ST. Louis County Health
> Department, Dr Dolores Gunn, and her deputy, Dr. Faisal Khan, to help.
> Gunn and Khan gave the state more zip codes and a different way to
> test the cancers. This time the results were different.
> 
> "They showed elevated levels of leukemia in adults and brain cancer in
> childrenbetween 1996-2011 in zip codes in and around Cold Water Creek
> area," Dr. Khan said.
> 
> Khan said the cancers could be attributed to exposure to radiation.
> 
> The county is now expanding its research and study in North County,
> and into other diseases possibly caused by radiation. It's the only
> county in the state putting effort in the research. It could set a
> precedent for other communities like Westlake.
> 
> Chappell is hoping the federal government will get involved. His son
> is still living with appendix cancer, but his father, a Mallinckrodt
> employee for years with a direct radiation exposure, died from renal
> cancer.
> 
> Chappell wants Cold Water Creek to stop taking any more lives.
> 
> Christina MacPherson | September 27, 2014 at 10:33 am | Categories:
> health, USA | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-i4s
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