Environmental team escorted from Le Roy HS Property

[Cooley Hurd]

http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/jac-leroy-138314344.html

Le Roy, N.Y. (WKBW) – An environmental team working with activist Erin Brockovich was forced off the Le Roy High School property over the weekend.

They were there to collect soil and water samples.

Brockovich and her team are looking into a potential environmental cause for the strange tic-like symptoms of more than a dozen students. Officials at the school said that those tests were already conducted, and came up with negative results.

After researching, Brockovich said she discovered a train derailment in the early 1970's spilled gallons of toxic chemicals just four miles from the school. According to federal documents, Brockovich said environmental agencies did not investigate the spill for more than 20 years. She said there is also a report that some of the chemicals spread to the school through rainwater runoff.

Brockovich thinks chemicals may already be in the soil of the athletic field. She said parents and students claim that they have seen an orange substance in the air, and on their shoes and sports gear when students play on the field.

“Every year when water rises, the chemicals from the bedrock pulse and come out into the ground water,” Brockovich said.
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Backstory:

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/news/article_1688106.php/Le-Roy-N-Y-Teen-Mystery-Illness-May-Be-Environmental-Says-Top-Neurologist

Le Roy, N.Y. Teen Mystery Illness May Be Environmental, Says Top Neurologist

A strange neurological mystery illness is affecting over a dozen teens at a high school in upstate New York, resulting in debilitating twitches, pain and spasms.

The CBS News affiliate in New York reports that high school students are stricken with an unexplainable set of symptoms.

One student, Thera Sanchez, awoke up from a nap with tremors and shaking. "It's very heartbreaking to me to be honest, knowing that right now I can't do what I love," she told CBS News.

Other students also had the onset of shaking, stuttering and uncontrollable body shaking and pain just as suddenly and without warning.

This condition has completely baffled the medical community in Genesee County town, reported first by CBS 2 news Maurice Dubois.

CBS News reports that even the local neurologists are having a hard time understanding why this is happening in the small community.
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[a simple pattern]

1. I so called this!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=170330

Except the spill was TCE, and that's not orange... in any case chasing the team off just shows that they have something to hide and are more concerned about dodging their culpability than about the health of their students.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I would think the HS would be THANKFUL they're getting high profile help...

I mean, isn't the HEALTH of the students FIRST and FOREMOST?

[a simple pattern]

3. I would think so too, and that makes their response seem really weird.

You would think they would be grateful for a second round of tests, if only to confirm the results.

The article doesn't say who ran them off. School officials? Police?

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Doesn't anyone want to get to the bottom of this?!

Heard this possible explanation on the national news, scary stuff, though it does seem odd that it's taken all these years to cause any effects. Seems to me that they should also check into previous medical reports from the area...