The Houston Health Department released new findings and have now started to notify residents of the Fifth Ward, the cancer causing chemical compound called Dioxin has been found in surface level soil.
, the cancer causing chemical compound called Dioxin, has been found in surface level soil.
They say all 42 samples collected around the 33 acres around the Union Pacific site were contaminated with the toxin. 27% of the Dioxin sample concentrations exceed the Environmental Protection Agency's non-carcinogenic risk-based screening level for children. "It makes you mad, but you’re glad it came back, because you know now," says Edwards. "Everybody on this street has someone in their family that has passed away from cancer, on this one street alone.
"The results keep coming in, it's all pointing to you," says Edwards. "These people had striving lives, companies and businesses before their body got eaten up with cancer. You took their lives from them, you robbed them of their lives." The health department says, the highest concentrations of the chemical are at the fence line and decrease in areas farther away.
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