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Fagin, Dan.
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Drinking water -- Contamination -- New Jersey -- Toms River Region.
Hazardous wastes -- Health aspects -- Case studies.
Factory and trade waste -- Case studies.
Cancer -- New Jersey -- Toms River Region.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects
Water -- Pollution -- New Jersey.
Water quality -- Health aspects -- Case studies.
Water quality -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
Toms River Watershed (N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
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Fagin, Dan.
Drinking water -- Contamination -- New Jersey -- Toms River Region.
Hazardous wastes -- Health aspects -- Case studies.
Factory and trade waste -- Case studies.
Cancer -- New Jersey -- Toms River Region.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects
Water -- Pollution -- New Jersey.
Water quality -- Health aspects -- Case studies.
Water quality -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
Toms River Watershed (N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
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Toms River : a story of science and salvation / Dan Fagin.
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Fagin, Dan.
Bantam Books, c2013.
Call #:
363
.7287
F155t
Subjects
Drinking water -- Contamination -- New Jersey -- Toms River Region.
Hazardous wastes -- Health aspects -- Case studies.
Factory and trade waste -- Case studies.
Cancer -- New Jersey -- Toms River Region.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects
Water -- Pollution -- New Jersey.
Water quality -- Health aspects -- Case studies.
Water quality -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
Toms River Watershed (N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN:
9780553806533 (hc.)
055380653X (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xv, 538 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-522) and index.
Contents:
Marking time -- The ice cream factory. Pirates ; Insensible things ; First fingerprints ; Secrets ; Sharkey and Columbo at the Rustic Acres ; Cells ; On Cardinal Drive -- Breach. Water and salt ; Hippies in the kitchen ; The coloring contest ; Cases ; Acceptable risks ; Friends and neighbors -- Counting. Two wards, two hits ; Cluster busting ; Moving on ; Invisible trauma ; A cork in the ocean ; Expectations -- Causes. Outsiders ; Surrogacy ; Blood work ; Associations ; Legacies.
Summary:
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.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for NonFiction, 2014.
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Bedford Public Library
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