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Irlydidnthaveachoice t1_ixe0kwv wrote

Reply to comment by 42ndRedBalloonFromUp in Colonia High School soil and air tested again in continuing cancer probe by fraaankie485

A link between the cancer cluster and the school has not been established. Could they find something, sure that possibility exists but considering they have preformed a radiation survey and results were negative, more than likely the school is not the issue.

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Yoshiyo0211 t1_ixibes2 wrote

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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