"Long Island, particularly the Eastern region (Suffolk County) has been bombarded with applications of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides for many decades. Chemicals applied in farming (particularly potato farming), home lawn care, ball parks and golf courses have been driven down through a rather shallow "lense" of soil and have contaminated groundwater on Long Island with impunity. Breast cancer rates in Suffolk County are among the highest in the US."
This should come as no surprise to anyone, given the research and data that is available today. Why we still tolerate it, that is the question.
More on this at:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/the-human-costs-of-nuclea_b_533516.html