It isn’t surprising that a Jersey guy like DeVito would want to tackle this cautionary tale. Publication date 2013 Topics Drinking water - Contamination - Health aspects - Toms River Region, Cancer - Toms River Region, Groundwater - Pollution - Health aspects - Toms River Region, Water quality - New Jersey - Toms River Watershed, Toms River Watershed (N.J. It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by. Toms River by Dan Fagin - 9780553806533 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author Dan Fagin. Unsuspecting pregnant mothers who drank the water bore children who didn’t have a chance. Toms River by Dan Fagin, 9780553806533, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. They buried tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid-laced wastewater into the town’s namesake river. Children were developing cancer at alarming rates, and they were finally scientifically linked to local air and water pollution that stemmed from large chemical companies using Toms River as their private dumping ground.

The book is an exposé about a group of families who fought to hold a government and industry accountable for the damage from industrial waste that created a deadly cancer cluster in their seaside New Jersey town.

The film will be produced by Jersey Film’s 2nd Avenue’s principles Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito and Jake DeVito. EXCLUSIVE: Danny DeVito’s Jersey Film’s 2nd Avenue has optioned the screen rights to Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Dan Fagin.

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