EPA meets with residents in Houston’s Fifth Ward cancer cluster

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The Environmental Protection Agency provided an update Tuesday night to people living in Houston’s Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens on the investigation into a cancer cluster.

– The EPA has been sampling the soil in the neighborhoods and says certain chemicals have been found in the soil, but that their work is not complete.“It’s important to recognize, you know, it is a scientific study. And as data comes in, it informs our next steps. So, you know, we have to take that information. We need to react to it,” said John Meyer from Region 6 of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Cancer Clusters: New developments continue to pop up in Fifth Ward, Kashmere Gardens despite contamination concerns For now, organizers say the next step will be collecting soil samples from residential yards in the area.Christian Terry covered digital news in Tyler and Wichita Falls before returning to the Houston area where he grew up. He is passionate about weather and the outdoors and often spends his days off on the water fishing.

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