Fridley Cancer Cluster Roundup: Documents Trace Water Quality History

It’s now been four months since Jason McCarty to determine whether environmental causes are culpable for .

Today, as the group’s 2,700 members wait for , much of the group’s energy is being directed toward gathering documents and information from government agencies and jurisdictions.

Here’s a roundup of recent documents posted by the Fridley Cancer Cluster Facebook group. You can read the documents here by clicking on the PDF thumbnails. Click the links below marked "(PDF)" to download the documents.

• McCarty posted the city of Fridley’s water quality reports for the years 1998 (PDF), 1999 (PDF) and 2000 (PDF). “They didn’t test for TCE,” McCarty wrote on the group’s discussion board. (The City of Fridley has posted its annual water quality reports covering the years 1998–2010, and says on its website that the 2011 report will be posted in the middle of this year.)
• Maureen Steltz, another group member, sent an information request to the Minnesota Department of Health that landed on the desk of Karla Peterson, the supervisor of the Community Public Water Unit. The request called for “raw water test data for the private wells at the Fridley Senior High School and Fridley Middle School” and for information about the city of Fridley’s practices for reporting water quality to the community before 1999, among other items. Steltz posted her full request along with Peterson’s reply to the group’s documents page.
• Another group member posted an October 2009 Water Resources Management Report from Anoka County (PDF) and a December 2001 report on the Fridley Commons Well Field (PDF).
• Also, linked to on the group's discussion board are photos showing uranium on the floor of the Twin City Army Ammunition Plant.