Keyport residents don't have answers one month after potential cancer cluster report
Sal Liguori says three of his family members who lived at his house on Raritan Bay for parts of their lives got sick. His son Anthony - a singer - died from an unknown cancer.
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A Keyport resident dissatisfied with the government response to a potential cancer cluster is calling in his own testing.
Sal Liguori says three of his family members who lived at his house on Raritan Bay for parts of their lives got sick. His son Anthony - a singer - died from an unknown cancer.
“I do consider this ground zero," Liguori said. "Not a word that I want to throw around lightly. Ground zero is a very serious word, and I think it's fair to use.”
The Keyport part of the bay is known to have carcinogens from an improperly-capped landfill. Liguori wants to know if the soil and air are also toxic. He called in a private company to test soil vapors for chemical contamination.
DEP testing is set to be done in the coming weeks. Liguori was not satisfied with Sunday’s community meeting.
“It was just a total fluff of the same rhetoric," Liguori said. "If I'm getting my house tested today with air quality at my cost, which is my choice, why can't somebody be here tomorrow to get air quality tested on the beach, or up there in the dump site, or just on the premises on this land?”
DEP has fined the site owner - Bay Ridge Realty - nearly $900,000. Those fines are unpaid with a court hearing in two weeks.
