Delaware cancer rates — note 19731
July 4th, 2023
Yes, every picture tells a story, worth a thousand words… Alan Muller, Green Delaware, spent decades fighting the polluters of Delaware, concentrated in New Castle County, and the Indian River coal plant way south (and surrounded by cancer), and many other polluters in Delaware and beyond.
A few maps of Delaware cancer rates… from this article about articles in the Snooze Urinal (as Alan calls the News Journal):
Cancer Clusters in Delaware? How One Newspaper Turned Official Statistics into News
Alan’s Port Penn, DE is in this area on the bay, just south of the C&D Canal, dark red in the map above, dark blue in the maps below:
Cancer Cluster Investigations in Delaware
And from the state’s Division of Public Health:
CENSUS TRACT-LEVEL CANCER INCIDENCE IN DELAWARE, 2015-2019
Port Penn, DE is in the dark blue census tract on eastern edge, south of Delaware City, that bumps out into the Delaware Bay (166 incidence rate on map):
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