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Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:46 pm |
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http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/news8/stories/wfaa080108_wz_somervillecancer.dd646f.html
 SOMERVILLE, Texas — Dennis Davis is in a race to find out what's killing his home town.
"I decided to do a little survey of my own; just check door-to-door," he said.
Cancer seems to be everywhere in Somerville, a railroad town of about 1,700 about 90 miles Northeast of Austin. "It's coming faster than we can even blink our eyes," Davis said.
The disease has claimed the lives of Davis' neighbors in every direction. "Out of the first 25 or 30 homes I hit here in my neighborhood, there wasn't a home here that someone hadn't already died of cancer or had cancer today," he said.
Cancer has cut every branch of Davis' family tree, claiming the lives of his brother, father and uncle.
"It would eat his whole face off—the roof of his mouth, he lost his teeth," Davis said.
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Now, the race is a battle for Dennis Davis. "I now have pancreatic cancer and am trying to survive."
Davis and more than 200 other Somerville residents believe all the cancer can be linked to the biggest employer in town, and they're suing.
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More than a million railroad ties and utility poles are manufactured annually at the Koppers Inc. Somerville plant, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2006. Workers still dunk untreated wood in preservatives—including coal tar creosote—known cancer-causing chemicals.
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Could this be yet another case of poisoned water & or air or both? |
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