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Toms River：a story of science and salvation

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fagin Dan
Published: Bantam Books,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Drinking water > Contamination > Health aspects > Toms River Region
Cancer > Toms River Region
Groundwater > Pollution > Health aspects > Toms River Region
Water quality > New Jersey > Toms River Watershed
Industrial Waste > adverse effects > New Jersey
Water Pollution, Chemical > adverse effects > New Jersey
Air Pollution > adverse effects > New Jersey
Chemical Industry > New Jersey
Neoplasms > epidemiology > New Jersey
Toms River Watershed N.J. > Environmental conditions
Carrier Form: xv, 538 p.: map ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780553806533
055380653X
Index Number: TU991
CLC: TU991.2
Call Number: TU991.2/F155
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Marking time -- The ice cream factory. Pirates ; Insensible things ; First fingerprints ; Secrets ; Sharkey and Columbo at the Rustic Acres ; Cells ; On Cardinal Drive -- Breach. Water and salt ; Hippies in the kitchen ; The coloring contest ; Cases ; Acceptable risks ; Friends and neighbors -- Counting. Two wards, two hits ; Cluster busting ; Moving on ; Invisible trauma ; A cork in the ocean ; Expectations -- Causes. Outsiders ; Surrogacy ; Blood work ; Associations ; Legacies.
Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals.

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