[Community_garden] Power Lines

[Mike McGrath]

That's pretty cavalier. It certainly doesn't reflect the medical research 
I've seen. (Its been a while, but I recall several well-done and troubling 
studies from back when I was a health writer, including one showing that the 
risk of cancer for children whose rooms were near outdoor transformers was 
much greater than for those not near those things.)
And what about contaminants in the soil from the building of the structures? 
And leakage of PCBs and God knows what else from the transformers overhead?
    I would walk away from this land; I suspect its only being offered 
because nobody else wants it.
                        Better safe than sorry,    Mike McG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Johnson" <bobjohnson at medfaxxinc.com>
To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:42 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] Power Lines


>
>  You and your gardeners are safe under those "power" lines.  Supposedly 
> the
> myth was started in England years ago and the claim was people
> living/working under "power" lines were contracting certain forms of 
> cancer
> at a much higher rate than general population.  That was not case, did not
> happen.  you can google for more info. and definitive studies if you like 
> to
> ascertain the veracity.
>
>   Later study on this showed that the rate of all forms of cancers 
> actually
> were lower than those who did not live under power lines.
>
>
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