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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, April 12, 2017
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
City of Newburgh.. . . . . . . . . . . 24
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
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Town of Newburgh. . . . . . . . . . . 23
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New Windsor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 38
PUBLIC AGENDA
MONDAY, APRIL 17
City of Newburgh Industrial
Development Agency, 7 p.m. Council
Chambers, 3rd Floor, City of Newburgh
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
Newburgh City Council Work
Session, 6 p.m. City Hall, 83 Broadway.
Town of Newburgh Planning Board, 7
p.m. Town Hall, 1496 Route 300, Town of
Newburgh.
MONDAY, APRIL 24
Newburgh City Council meeting. 7
p.m. City Hall, 83 Broadway.
Town of Newburgh Workshop
meeting, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 1496 Route
300, Town of Newburgh.
Not just a simple blood test
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simple blood test,” said environmental
epidemiologist Elizabeth Lewis-Michl,
DOH director of environmental
health assessments for the Center for
Environmental Health.
There are only a few laboratories in
the country that have the ability to test
blood for PFOS, she said, and results can
take up to three months.
The laboratory is where thousands
of blood samples will be tested for
perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs
– specifically PFOS, also known
as perfluorooctane sulfonate, the
chemical responsible for the wholesale
contamination of the City of Newburgh
water supply.
“The main objective of blood testing
effort is to try to find out the level
the community was exposed to this
chemical,” Lewis-Michl said.
She spoke at a meeting hosted by
the DOH at the Newburgh Armory Unity
Center last month to present the findings
from the first round of blood tests offered
through the DOH biomonitoring program
in the fall.
The program currently offers free
blood tests to anyone who drank water in
the City of Newburgh.
The test results
S pecial R eport :
N ewburgh ’ s T ainted W ater
So far, almost 1,200 people have had
their blood tested; 740 people have
received test results as of this month.
Testing is expected to continue into June.
“When we get to the City of Newburgh,
the levels of people in the city were 20.2,”
said Lewis-Michl.
She was referring to 20.2 micrograms
per liter – the 50th-percentile level of
PFOS in the blood of residents served by
City of Newburgh who were tested so far.
“The 50th percentile is the middle
result among all individual results: half
the people had levels higher and half
had lower than the 50th percentile,” the
DOH explains. (For report