Contaminated sites study finds poor neighbors – 34% probability a Hispanic person lives next to a Superfund site in Lake County, Indiana From: post-trib.com
Tagged: Indiana, population, ProfessorPosted on: April 25th, 2008
Minorities and poor people are more likely than whites and median-income people to live next to Superfund sites, the most contaminated sites in the country. That’s what’s happening at Gary’s most toxic sites, according to a study by a Northwest Indiana professor.
Professor Alexandre da Silva, a visiting assistant professor at Calumet College in Whiting, studied the population near four Superfund sites in Gary and three in St. Joseph County. The sites on Gary’s west side are known as Midco I and II, Lake Sandy Jo Landfill and the Ninth Avenue Dump.
Da Silva found that there’s a 42 percent probability that a black person in Lake County lives next to a Superfund site, a 34 percent probability a Hispanic person does, and a 24 percent probability for a white person.”*
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