The
180 Mill Street Study
If
you lived in Rhode Island in the 1970's and 80's than you should
remember Ciba-Geigy. The Ciba-Geigy Plant or CG, was at the time one
of the oldest chemical production plants in RI and was located in
Cranston at 180 Mill Street, just feet from the Pawtuxet River. It
was there that CG released daily into the river over 1.5 million
gallons of untreated toxic chemicals and heavy metals. “A
1981 EPA study termed the Ciba-Geigy's wastes "acutely toxic"
and found that half the test organisms exposed to the waste diluted
ten times were killed within 48 hours.”
Multinational Monitor June
1983 - Volume 4 - Number 7.
In
1984 Ciba-Geigy closed its doors and moved out of Rhode Island,
leaving behind a legacy of pollution. Today many former and current
citizens of Rhode Island are ill with terminal or chronic health
conditions. Could these conditions be the result of years of exposure
to environmental toxins? We just do not know. What the EPA and the
FDA knew in the 1970's is not the same as what is known today. To
date based on EPA information provided to this blogger no complete
study has been undertaken to look into health related illnesses of
those residents who resided in or around the Ciba-Geigy plant site at
180 Mill Street in Cranston RI.
This
is the purpose of The Ciba Zone – The 180 Mill Street Study. In the
coming weeks and months online polls will be used to survey those
citizens who resided in the vicinity of the now closed Ciba plant.
Citizens will be asked to participate in a voluntary survey. The
data which will be collected will be forwarded on to The RI
Department of Health and other governmental agencies as this blogger
deems necessary to “get the word out”.
Lives
have been lost. This is apparent. Those who lived in the Ocean State
are well aware that the Pawtuxet River was rendered a toxic
nightmare. Literally there was a call to “Save the Bay”. Perhaps
now is the right time to look at the human capacity and contain this
figure.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ILLNESSES ARE THOUGHT TO BE?
ReplyDeletemy mother as well as 9 of our neighbors had alheizmers disease. she was 56 when she got it. neighbors had cancer, ny sister and I had cervical cancer, we all developed cataracts. my father heart disease. I wrote several letters to Geigy, all unanswered.
DeleteI have lived on the Warwick side of Ciba and have for most of my life...I grew up playing in "ciba's back yard". I have multiple medical problems and have been disabled for almost 20 yrs. The dr's don't have a clue as to what caused my issues. I wish I had received a questionnaire. I think between Ciba & the airport Warwick is a toxic zone.
ReplyDeletesend me a questionnaire my sister and I both had cancer my mother alheizmers my father heart issues 3 attacks 23 park st Fryeburg me 04037
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