The Daily CSX: Waycross, Georgia Looks for Answers in Childhood Cancer Outbreak

From The Daily Hornet; November 6, 2017

Waycross, Georgia is a town of about 15,000 people that sits on top of an enormous spill, or plume, of toxic chemicals. The state ordered the site to be cleaned up in 1985 when they found hazardous chemicals like paint strippers and solvents poured into pits and down the drains.

The owner of the site, railroad company CSX Transportation, has been monitoring the Rice Yard complex since the early 1990s. The complex sits in the center of Waycross and spreads out for 755 acres around it, with nearby streams that could carry pollutants even farther away.

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