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Toms River a story of science and salvation /

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. One of New Jersey's seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-...

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Main Author: Fagin, Dan.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2015]
Physical Description: xxiii, 542 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Drinking water -- Contamination -- Health aspects -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Factory and trade waste -- Health aspects -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Factory and trade waste -- Health aspects -- Case studies.
Cancer -- Environmental aspects -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Cancer -- Environmental aspects -- New Jersey -- Toms River.
Cancer in children -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies.
Chemical industry -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Water quality -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Toms River Watershed (N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
Toms River (N.J.) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
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