Union Pacific Railroad has announced a collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and community partners in an agreement to move forward with additional environmental assessment and testing at the former Houston Wood Preserving Works site in Fifth Ward.
The agreement follows decades of complaints from residents wanting Union Pacific to do more to contain and remove creosote contamination at and surrounding the old railyard at Liberty and Lockwood.
As defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a cancer cluster is a “greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a period of time.” In January 2021, the state health department reported additional significant findings -- that childhood lymphoblastic leukemia in Houston’s Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens communities occurred at a rate five times higher than the national average.
Residents expressed their fear on lack of cleaning and attention that has allowed for the toxic area to spread. More testing was needed to confirm that.Soil gas testing and assessment of potential vapor intrusion pathways.
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