Long Island and Cancer (Plainview, East Hampton: condos, houses, neighborhoods)
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Since the past month or so I’ve been researching neighborhoods in Long Island to move to with my family and came upon some alarming statistics concerning cancer. Apparently Long Island unlike the rest of NYC doesn’t get its water from pristine reservoirs upstate but rather LIers drink their own groundwater that’s packed with leeched pharmaceutics and hormones from birth control pills and carcinogenic pesticides from farms, lawns, etc.
I looked at one neighborhood we were considering buying in (either Jericho or Plainview) and read their government mandated distribution on their water supply and there was special mentioned of elevated levels of nitrates and pesticides but still below government threshold levels but they advise you if you have an infant younger than 6 months not to drink or bathe in it.
The more I read into it the more I think that the good schools in LI are not worth the increased cancer risk, especially considering there’s no filtration system that removes the harmful compounds dissolved in the water despite what water filtration salesman tell you about their costly activated-charcoal reverse-osmosis systems.
In a color-coded cancer map that goes from dark red to dark blue, Suffolk falls in the dark red, Nassau in Orange-ish, and my current hometown of Queens in the best ranking of dark blue.
On top of the PITA commute to NYC, $10k+ property tax, worrying about septic tanks and flood zones given our new climate patterns, I say the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back is LI’s cancer situation. Anyone else consider these factors when moving there?
Here's the color coded cancer table I'm referring to:
Odd that Richmond County (Staten Island) falls in the second highest interval and most of Westchester gets its water from the same reservoirs as NYC yet it ranks higher on the list than Brooklyn/BronxQueens.
In a color-coded cancer map that goes from dark red to dark blue, Suffolk falls in the dark red, Nassau in Orange-ish, and my current hometown of Queens in the best ranking of dark blue.
On top of the PITA commute to NYC, $10k+ property tax, worrying about septic tanks and flood zones given our new climate patterns, I say the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back is LI’s cancer situation. Anyone else consider these factors when moving there?
Here's the color coded cancer table I'm referring to:
Recognize the incidence difference between Nassau and Queens is only about 10% and can easily be explained by heightened awareness of health, income and access to diagnostics. Also this map may look completely different 10 years from now when more data is taken into account. Creating a map like this at a single point in time is wrong.
Recognize the incidence difference between Nassqau and Queens is only about 10% and can easily be explained by heightened awareness of health, income and access to diagnostics. Also this map may look completely different 10 years from now when more data is taken into account. Creating a map like this at a single point in time is wrong.
You are right. it could be that people I Nassau and Suffolk counties have better access to health care then the rest of the state. So they get screened more.
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