Hi Janet, Although I don't have specific information regarding extended exposure with power line issues, more than a decade ago I was the PR person when the local power company (CL & P) wanted to place a substation next to my townhouse complex & an elementary school in New Canaan, CT. The issue was EMF's (electric and magnetic fields), a measurable emissions from power lines. The President of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp, just happened to be a parent, was instrumental in guidance & in getting major press, including a New York Times interview in my living room, when published suddenly changed the conversation of both CL & P & town officials from it's "OK" too "we need to look further at this issue". Bottom line, they re-positioned the site & reduced their plans considerably. We had also worked on a health survey of another neighborhood that had a substation & there was a cancer cluster that was further researched by the CT Dept of Public Health. Although there has never been a research study to say 100% that EMF's or power lines are directly linked to increases of specific cancers (brain, Lymphoma's etc...) my personal feeling would be to avoid the issue whenever possible. PS, Utility companies refer to findings of Electric Power Research Institute (funded by the utility companies) an interesting article: http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/memf.htm Mary Ann West Co-Chair, Westport Community Garden PO Box 61 Greens Farms, CT 06838 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070321/ee2c12b8/attachment.html
