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Old 01-26-2007, 05:36 PM   #1
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Default Cancer on Liberty Hill Road, Gilford

WCVB TV in Boston (CH 5) reported tonight (1/26) a story about 18 deaths from cancer clustered on this street in Gilford. Something to do with a coal plant (i think that is what they said) on this site long ago. In case this is an area that forum readers are familiar with (I don't know Gilford geography), I thought I'd pass this info along...
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Old 01-26-2007, 05:59 PM   #2
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Default Citizen article on Liberty Hill investagation

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll...-1/citizen0102

Liberty Hill Road is just off the bypass

http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&...l=en&tab=wl&q=
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Old 01-27-2007, 07:30 AM   #3
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Post More direct link to Google Map of Liberty Hill Road vicinity

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Liberty Hill Road is just off the bypass

http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&...l=en&tab=wl&q=
Thanks for the info SteveA. Amazing the "innocent" things of years ago we now discover may lead to cancer.

Here's a more direct link to the Google map showing Liberty Hill Road in Gilford:

Map of Liberty Hill Road and vicinity
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Old 01-27-2007, 08:42 AM   #4
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Default Thanks for fixing my map link.

Thx Skip

My bad..... it looked good on the "preview page" somehow I messed up the link. Thanks for the help correcting it.

It is scary.. From what I'm told, Gilford is not alone in concerns about exactly what types of materials were used 25-30 years ago as "fill". I remember working in a campground during my 20's, when they applied used motor oils to "oil" the dirt roads to hold down dust.
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Old 11-14-2007, 02:23 PM   #5
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Exclamation EPA and Liberty Hill, what's up...

Could Liberty Hill be another Love Canal?
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Old 11-16-2007, 12:42 PM   #6
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Default Phew, that was easy...

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Courtesy Photo/Raymond Reed A BLACK SUBSTANCE believed to be coal tar pours out of a tanker truck into an area believed to be Liberty Hill in 1952.
Since this issue has not drawn a comment, guess Gilford should purchase the Liberty Hill properties and ues it for a nuclear waste dump site - a very profitable usage of the property and obviously of little concern to those in the Lake's region.
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Old 12-12-2007, 12:02 AM   #7
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This issue still seems to draw little concern.

Where are all the conservation groups?

This is a Lake issue. Why the silence?

They had plenty to say about the speed limit.

What's been flowing into the Lake all these years?

Is coal tar a carcinogen?

Energy is good.

Improper waste disposal is not.



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Public concern about the nature of chemical plant operations and their products forced a number of government actions. In the U.S., the federal government enacted a number of environmental restrictions that forced many chemical companies to change not only their product lines, but also their production and waste treatment methods. Beginning in 1965, the U.S. government enacted the Water Quality Act, and then followed with other major pieces of legislation including the Clean Air Act of 1970; the Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1970; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act of 1972; the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974; the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act of 1976; and the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.
http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/980112/coal.html

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Old 12-12-2007, 05:29 AM   #8
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Default "Engineer" Decries Dump, Suffers from Cancer...

Wolfeboro has a similar problem with a toxic PCB, dioxin, and benzene dump within a few feet of Back Bay.

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"...It is an established fact, by NHDES and Dartmouth College, that there is arsenic in these old NH Dumps. There is probably benzene in the Foss Field Dump. Long-time Wolfeboro residents may have personal knowledge of what else is in there..."
The Town has "fixed the problem" by bulldozing more fill over the dump, paving part of it for parking, and installing a playground on it.
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Old 03-20-2008, 07:13 PM   #9
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Residents urged to write about Liberty Hill

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll...-1/CITNEWS0815
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Old 03-25-2008, 01:33 PM   #10
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Default Who's representing the public?

Sounds like a done deal and a slam dunk for Keyspan via NHDES...

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll...4327/0/CITIZEN

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll...022/-1/CITIZEN
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Old 10-25-2008, 07:45 AM   #11
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Default Clean Up to Start

The removal of the Coal Tar at Liberty Hill is to start in Nov. Web site to track progress.
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll...857/-1/CITNEWS
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Post Liberty Hill Road in Gilford

Agreement Announced for the Removal of the Coal Tar on Liberty Hill Rd in Gilford

http://www.laconiadailysun.com/index...hill-agreement
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