[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, FORMER SITES: River Valley Schools/Marion Depot (OH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Return To River Valley: Some Families Still Believe School Grounds  
Led To Cancer

By Ashleigh Barry
WBNS TV-10 News (Central Ohio)
May 13, 2013

MARION, Ohio - In the late 1990s in Marion, parents of students at  
River Valley schools questioned high cancer rates among the graduates.

The high school and middle school were built on a former army depot  
site where students could have been exposed to more than 75 hazardous  
contaminants.

The state health department did not dismiss the concerns but insisted  
that there was no direct evidence the chemicals caused the cancer.

Two of the families recently told 10TV about their journey since  
getting the devastating news more than a decade ago.


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For the entire story, see
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2013/05/13/marion-return-to-river- 
valley-cancer-concerns.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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