The author achieves this goal from interviews. The point of this article is to show that citizens of Glen Ridge were largely unaware of the fact that there was any sort of danger posed to them. (Source 1) This source is a new york times article written during the time of the cleanup and it details interactions with Glen ridge citizens through interviews of homeowners both new and old. These articles help me understand the situation ongoing in this area at the time and gives me a little more insight as to what happened in between when the factory shut its doors and when the EPA got involved with cleanup. The website itself also includes photographs of the factory, which, while not helpful to this paper, is still interesting. It also includes a bibliography including more information pertinent to this site and story.
It was written by Debbie Galant in 1996, in the middle of the cleanup.
This is a new york times article written during the cleanup that talks about the interaction with residents and the toxic site.Likely there are more situations where dangerous levels of radium made their way into soil in areas that could harm people how did other sites differ and how might have the two sites on the borders of wealthier (white) communities received different treatment? Why was this not acknowledged as dangerous, and does land value represent a possible culpability and acknowledgement of danger? How did this problem get recognized in the 1980s and what were health concerns from it that people in the area were exposed to? The US Radium Company was not the only clock face painter in the United States, and not the only one to run into legal trouble over girls at the factories becoming ill.
#Where are the radium girls buried trial
Firstly, why was this radium-enriched soil used for anything? The case of the “Radium Girls” had already faced trial and shown the public the deadly effects that radium exposure can have on the human body. The EPA established the area (along with its sister site in Montclair/West Orange) a superfund site, and cleanup went on from 1990 to 2004. In the 1980s, the state identified dangerous amounts of radon gas in homes, and excessive amounts of gamma radiation both inside and outside. This radioactive refuse covered 130 acres, which today is mostly residential properties and a public park.
Radium byproducts made their way into the soil surrounding the factory, which was then used to fill in the ground, as well as in cement for foundations and sidewalks. In the 1920s, on the border of Glen Ridge and Orange, NJ, the US Radium Company operated a factory where radium paint was applied to clock dials.
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