RESEARCHERS AT DARTMOUTH ARE NOW WORKING HARD TO CLEAN SOME
POLLUTION THAT ITS RESEARCHERS MIGHT HAVE PUT OUT IN
NEARBY NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGH ITS RESEARCH.
THIS HAS TO DO WITH A SPECIFIC TYPE OF CARCINOGEN.
IT IS KNOWN
AS 14 DIOXANE AND IS FOUND IN SOME OF THE LAB MATERIAL
THAT THEY HAVE THEIR NOW OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES IN A
WAY THAT MIGHT NOT BE SO GREAT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND
MIGHT'VE ACTUALLY CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER NEARBY.
THE SITE, APPARENTLY THE HALF ACRE PLOT ON THE COLLEGE IS
READY FARM WAS USED FROM THE 1960S UNTIL 1978
TO DUMP CARCASSES FROM TRACER EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH
SCIENCES USE RADIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS TO SEE HOW THINGS
MOVE THROUGH LIFE SYSTEMS.
AND IT ALSO CONTAINED REMAINS OF HUMAN CADAVERS AND
STILLBORN FETUSES USED IN MEDICAL CLASSES.
THIS IS MEDICAL WASTE OR RESEARCH, MATERIALS THAT
WERE USED IN RESEARCH THAT WERE NOT DISPOSED OF PROPERLY.
THIS HAPPENED IN THE 1960S THROUGH 1978.
WHO KNOWS WHETHER THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING OR IF THEY
INTENTIONALLY DID THIS BUT DARTMOUTH IS NOT TRYING TO
DO SOMETHING TO CLEAN UP AND HELP THE FAMILIES THAT HAVE
BEEN NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY THIS.
THIS HAS CONTAINED, CONTAMINATED THE WELL WATER
OF AT LEAST ONE FAMILY, THAT OF RICHARD AND DEBBIE HIGGINS
WHO BLAME A VARIETY OF HEALTH PROBLEMS ON IT INCLUDING
RASHES, HAIR AND SKIN LOSS AND DIZZINESS.
EVEN THE
DOGS WERE NOT SPARED, THEY SAY, WITH ONE URINATING BLOOD AND
ANOTHER VOMITING.
SINCE THEN THE COLLEGE HAS ACTUALLY GIVEN THEM BOTTLED
WATER AND THEY ARE DOING WHATEVER THEY CAN TO HELP
FIX THIS PROBLEM FOR THEM.
THEY'VE ALSO TESTED THE WATER IN SURROUNDING AREAS AND
THEY HAVEN'T FOUND ANY OTHER CONTAMINATION BUT THE STORY
IS INSANE.
TO KNOW THAT YOU COULD BE AFFECTED BY SOMETHING, YOUR
PROPERTY VALUES COME DOWN, YOUR HEALTH IS BEING NEGATIVELY
IMPACTED AND IT IS HAPPENING FOR DECADES AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
110 DRINKING WELLS IN THE AREA WERE TESTED BY DARTMOUTH.
THEY ALL CAME OUT CLEAN AND THEY ARE STILL OFFERING BOTTLED
WATER TO 20 HOUSEHOLDS JUST IN CASE.
THIS IS ACTUALLY HANDLED BETTER THAN IN MOST OF THE
CONTAMINATION STORIES THAT WE COVER.
I THINK WE ARE AT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG.
I THINK THIS IS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
NOT ONLY IN FLINT BUT WE WERE AMONG THE TEAMS THAT
UNCOVERED LEAD POISONING IN INDIANA.
THAT SITUATION IS HORRIBLE AND THEN I'VE NOW HEARD OF
DOZENS OF CASES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
AND THEN WE COVERED THE STORY ON TYT POLITICS OF CORPUS
CHRISTI WHERE AN ASPHALT COUNTRY COMPANY, DUMPED
TOXINS INTO THE DRINKING WATER OVER THERE.
A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER THE GOVERNMENT SAYS IT IS FINE NOW.
REALLY, IT WAS TOXIC A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO AND NOW IT IS TOTALLY
FINE?
OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND
GOVERNMENTS I HAVE SEEN HAVE HANDLED THIS SITUATION, I
THINK DARTMOUTH DID A BETTER JOB.
YEAH, THEY ARE STEPPING UP AND THEY'RE COMING CLEAN
ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON.
THE FAMILIES WHO THINK THEY ARE AFFECTED BY THIS BELIEVE, NO,
THEY'RE NOT BEING TRANSPARENT ENOUGH.
THEY WANT MORE.
THEY WANT THE COLLEGE TO ACTUALLY MOVE THEM TO
ANOTHER HOME IN A DIFFERENT AREA WHICH BY THE WAY, DARTMOUTH
IS CONSIDERING.
THEY ARE COMING FORWARD AND DOING WHATEVER THEY CAN TO
HELP THE SITUATION.
THEY'RE NOT DENYING IT.
BY THE WAY, IF I'M THAT FAMILY, I THINK THAT IS
PROBABLY A FAIR REQUEST.
IF MY WATER IS POISONED, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?
KEEP DRINKING IT?
EVENTUALLY WE THINK IT WILL GET BETTER?
I'M GOING TO USE BOTTLED WATER FOR THE REST OF THE TIME?
THAT IS JUST ONE FAMILY.
WHEN YOU HAVE A STORIES LIKE FLINT AND INDIANA, WHOLE
TOWNS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY
IT.
SAME IN CORPUS CHRISTI AND ALL OF THESE OTHER PLACES.
WE HAVE GOT TO FIX OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
WE HAVE TO COME CLEAN ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE IN OUR WATER.
IN A LOT OF PLACES IT IS NOT AT ALL SAFE.
FOR SO LONG THE GOVERNMENT AND THE COMPANIES THAT THE
GOVERNMENT IS BEHOLDEN TO SAY "NO, EVERYTHING IS FINE."
WHAT, IS THE PIPELINE GOING TO LEAK?
YEAH, ALMOST ALL OF THEM DO.
THE OIL THAT GETS INTO THE WATER, THE TOXINS THAT GET INTO
THE WATER, THAT IS NOT GOING TO CAUSE YOU PROBLEMS.
OF
COURSE IT IS.
WE HAVE TO BE A LOT MORE CAREFUL THAN THIS.
WE HAVE TO START CLEANING ALL OF THIS UP SO THAT WE CAN HAVE
WHAT SHOULD BE THE BARE MINIMUM: SAFE DRINKING WATER.
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