Read the full article by Alexi Cohan (WVCB).
“A Tewksbury family is on a mission to find out if PFAS contamination from a former local landfill is what caused cancer and other illnesses in their community.
Ryan Connor was diagnosed with kidney cancer when he was just 22 years old, and his sister, Briana Garcia, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and the autoimmune disease scleroderma in her thirties. Their mother died of cancer when they were just kids.
‘My whole life growing up, people in our neighborhood got sick and passed away from rare blood cancers, rare diseases,’ Connor said.
The siblings, who now live in New Hampshire, grew up on South Street in Tewksbury, just a short walk from Sutton Brook Disposal Area, a dump previously known as Rocco’s Landfill.
They played in the wetlands surrounding the dump, often fishing and catching frogs. Connor even camped out there.”…