Coldwater Creek Health Maps depict illness and disease in our community as a result of exposure to contamination from Manhattan Project waste materials that sat out in the elements next to Coldwater Creek at the St. Louis Airport Site (SLAPS) & the Hazelwood Interim Storage Site (HISS). Coldwater Creek Health Maps are copyrighted material and may not be used without permission. Maps may not be used for marketing, commercial and/or legal purposes.
Appendix (37) *generously a community similar to our size should see a maximum of 8 cases
Autoimmune (320)
Brain (113 reported / 95 brain + 18 noncancerous)
Cancer (All) (Almost 3300 reports of cancer and other illness)
Thyroid (202 / 59 thyroid + 143 thyroid conditions)
Background on maps:
Genesis: Facebook users posting information on illness and residence on Coldwater Creek – Just the Facts group page
- Approximately 750 cases
- Information collected and hand-entered
After Leisa Zigman’s KSDK story in January, 2013, group
membership expanded dramatically
- Almost 8400 members
- Automated data collection process using SurveyMonkey
- Directed from FB site to survey link
- Informed that we were collecting this voluntary information to
produce maps
Survey information
- Almost 2800 additional reports via survey through October, 2013
- Added the original Facebook cases prior to the survey launch
- Removed by hand duplicate entries, entries without sufficient information
- Almost 3300 reports of cancer or other illness
- Complete list of other illnesses available on Facebook site
Today: maps of over 1400 cases:
- Cancer
- Autoimmune disease
- Thyroid problems
- Many no longer living in area
Only information from those who heard about site and
volunteered information