It's time for the right involvement

Some local people may have the right idea about getting the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the state and county health departments hopping into investigating the local cancer cluster.

The answers are not going to be easy or fast to uncover, and it will take positive public involvement to keep up a momentum.

The Clyde Enterprise has been writing articles about the local cancer cases among children for years now -sadly. The children do not have easy common denominators - those whom we know. They live in a five-township area - half of Sandusky County and Adams Township in Seneca County.

They don't all go to the same school, don't use the same water source, don't all breathe the same air, or live on the same soil. Most live in the 18 to 20 mile wide, Clyde-Green Springs school district.

That said, the testing is long, long overdue. Even as the county health department was collecting information about each family for the state health department, we said testing was needed.

Air monitoring and soil bore samples are still needed throughout this city, and at private homes outside the city limits. We also need people who remember where any old chemical dumps were in the five townships to let the health department know about those locations today.