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My mom is looking in that area and do I recall some gypsum mines around the area? Any landfills or large electric grid towers? She has serious asthma problems...isn't gypsum what they use to make asbestos?
A couple in Tonawanda near the Dunlop plant. Tonawanda and Pendleton are pollution free compared to the cities of Buffalo, Lackawanna or Niagara Falls. I would be leary of property in most sections of those cities. I think the only clear areas in Buffalo are near Delaware Park anywhere else in the city and you are going to be near some sort of vacant former industrial site.
Do you both already live in WNY? If not it might not be the best place to move to if she has bad asthma depending on where you're from. Places in the South like Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi are the worst but any region with high humidity levels tends to really give asthma sufferers a hard time. So if you're moving from there it might be better but if you're from an arid climate or mountainous region it would be much worse.
The only spots that I have heard of is around the parks on River RD in NT. Gastown in Tonawanda has had some reports, but again no confirmed cases that would give alarm. Pendleton is mostly rural/suburban with alot of old farmland, so I really doubt there would be any problems there.
My mom is looking in that area and do I recall some gypsum mines around the area? Any landfills or large electric grid towers? She has serious asthma problems...isn't gypsum what they use to make asbestos?
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Asbestos was put into gypsum to make fireproof products demanded by indudstry. Gypsum itself is not asbestos. Asbestos is added to it . national gypsum no longer mines here nor makes any product w/asbestos. Anyplace you see wallboard or shingles or any king of fireproofing pre 1979 can have asbestos, just usually encapsulated and safe ( like house shingles) The problems were w/workers making the product ( had family who worked in the plants)
If you mother were to move anywhere in a recent house, she could get Chinese wallboard ( gypsum w/out asbestos) which is more toxic and will corrode things.
Large electric grid towers run from the Falls all across the area. We have lines from NYSEG about half a mile away from the house. Not an issue. There are lots in Tonawanda - from the Falls, s. along Ellicott Creek and crossing the creek near parker. Don't know where they go farther south. You get them out in farm country like Alabama and Basom as well.
As to landfills, you have almost everything in the world in the county. Some are sites with dangerous chemicals. Most don't Someone suggested looking into the area of Delaware park. FWIW, the entire area of the Pan American Exposition ( in that area) tore down the place after it was over and used it as landfill; look up a map for the Pan American.
A couple in Tonawanda near the Dunlop plant. Tonawanda and Pendleton are pollution free compared to the cities of Buffalo, Lackawanna or Niagara Falls. I would be leary of property in most sections of those cities. I think the only clear areas in Buffalo are near Delaware Park anywhere else in the city and you are going to be near some sort of vacant former industrial site.
Asbestos was put into gypsum to make fireproof products demanded by indudstry. Gypsum itself is not asbestos. Asbestos is added to it . national gypsum no longer mines here nor makes any product w/asbestos. Anyplace you see wallboard or shingles or any king of fireproofing pre 1979 can have asbestos, just usually encapsulated and safe ( like house shingles) The problems were w/workers making the product ( had family who worked in the plants)
If you mother were to move anywhere in a recent house, she could get Chinese wallboard ( gypsum w/out asbestos) which is more toxic and will corrode things.
Large electric grid towers run from the Falls all across the area. We have lines from NYSEG about half a mile away from the house. Not an issue. There are lots in Tonawanda - from the Falls, s. along Ellicott Creek and crossing the creek near parker. Don't know where they go farther south. You get them out in farm country like Alabama and Basom as well.
As to landfills, you have almost everything in the world in the county. Some are sites with dangerous chemicals. Most don't Someone suggested looking into the area of Delaware park. FWIW, the entire area of the Pan American Exposition ( in that area) tore down the place after it was over and used it as landfill; look up a map for the Pan American.
no wonder it pays to be in healthcare in Buffalo - sins of the father yada yada -thanks for the info such as it is..actually I think they still mine for gypsum in the Clarence area - I recall a group of Indian doctors were shown properties in a really nice sub only to be told it was built over a gypsum mine - they hightailed it out of there like bats outta hell.
The problem with Gypsum mines is not contamination but the risk that they could collapse. There is a very upscale subdivision in East Amherst that is built right over one. Not a place I would buy a home, the unstable soil in that area is bad enough.
As for there being no toxic waste dumps in Tonawanda I whole heartly disagree. There are lots of toxic waste sites in the River Road cooridor including some that contain radioactive materials. Areas east of Military Road throughout the vast majority of the Town are problem free.
no wonder it pays to be in healthcare in Buffalo - sins of the father yada yada -thanks for the info such as it is..actually I think they still mine for gypsum in the Clarence area - I recall a group of Indian doctors were shown properties in a really nice sub only to be told it was built over a gypsum mine - they hightailed it out of there like bats outta hell.
The mines are closed and the plant is nothing but scrap metal of what used to be there. I good portion of Clarence's nicest homes are out by those mines. there are also problems from springs underground -- my husband knew someone who built in Clarence and the basement was over a spring
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