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California school launches cell tower study

Vista Del Monte Elementary school officials will launch cell tower study to address concerns about cancer.

Tue, Jun 01 2010 at 2:00 PM EST
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Five years ago, Sprint erected an 85-foot cell phone tower in the middle of California's Vista Del Monte Elementary school. At the time, Sprint studied the tower's structural safety and an initial power reading, but since then teachers and students have become increasingly concerned about the tower's electromagnetic effect on health.
 
The Vista Del Monte tower is 20 feet from classroom buildings and next to the playground and lunch tables. Teachers and staff at the school, in the Victoria Park neighborhood, have expressed concerns about the number of cancer cases that have appeared at the school since the tower was installed. Janet Acker, a retired Vista Del Monte teacher, used to work in one of the classrooms closest to the tower. She has recorded nine current and former staff members who have been diagnosed with cancer. Acker has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and has spoken to the board of education about the matter in the past.
 
The school district receives $1,500 a month to house the Sprint cell tower and also uses it for district communication and Internet equipment. Considering the budget crunch that many school districts face each year, that kind of steady income is a big incentive to let the tower stand.  
 
Still, school officials are listening to the concerns of staff and students. This week, school officials will launch a $15,000 independent review to study the electromagnetic waves coming from the cell tower, particularly looking for any irregular electric waves, or “dirty power.”
 
You can bet that many school districts nationwide will be eager to hear the results.
 
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Christine Hoch 01/28/2011 21:02 PM

This story is very disheartening. As school division budgets dwindle and they look for new ways to raise money, cell phone towers are very tempting and attractive. For example, in Fairfax CountyVirginia, the number of cell towers on school property grew rapidly in 2010.

We don't know the consequences of long-term exposure to pulsed radiofrequency radiation. No research on long-term exposure to cell phone towers is being conducted in the Unitd States, which needs to.... More

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Robert Riedlinger 01/28/2011 11:57 AM

I know that cell towers can cause illness as I had to move from my home and the RF has left my hyper sensitive to any kind of EMD

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Kim McClinton 01/22/2011 14:20 PM

I am a teacher at Vista del Monte. The district completed their study and came up with nothing. However, they were very careful to avoid looking at the one thing we were most concerned with, the "dirty electricity", also known as high voltage transients. When we asked why this was left out of their study, they told us that the G/S units were not a recognized unit of measurement. A G/S reading of 50 or less is considered safe. Our school has readings up to almost 12,000 G/S units. I have.... More

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Dave 12/18/2010 07:55 AM

I have felt illness from living near cell tower--has changed my life--hard to get specifics --GOOD LUCK!!!!!!-- You might look for more than just cancer---have grades dropped? test scores?? increases in poor behavior? thank you for doing this--

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