Known exposure pathways have indicated serious exposures far in excess of multiple criteria, ongoing for decades. Many of the past exposures such as solvents in the Creek (the "Gig") include benzene, toluene, chlorobenzene, chlorophenols etc. aren't even on anybody's radar because they are mostly gone way downstream now but have done damage to humans and wildlife in the past. Meanwhile nobody even wants to look at other known contaminants in the Creek such as mercury and PCBs because they claim they come from a different source than Uniroyal Chemical. So start figuring in what effects those contaminants have on DDT and dioxin/furan toxicity and the risk multiplies. Finally remember that the MECP and scientists are virtually unable to figure out cumulative risks if multiple contaminants are present thus they only look at the single risks of each contaminant versus the unknown cumulative risks. Therefore if you have excess cancer risks of 8 per 100,000 people for DDT alone and 9 per 100,000 people for dioxins/furans they don't add them together, they pretend that there are no synergistic (multiplying) effects. Then add in all the past exposures (previously mentioned solvents) plus risks from Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) and mercury and PCBs whatever the source and your actual health risks are multiple times higher than the mathematical manipulations they use to allegedly determine risk.
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