Donora, Pennsylvania
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Donora, Pennsylvania is a borough located in Washington County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 5,653.
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History
Between October 26 and October 31, 1948 an air inverse trapped fluoride effluence from the Zinc Works. "In three days, 18 people died... After the inversion lifted, another 50 died. Hundreds more finished the rest of their lives with damaged lungs and hearts. But another 40 years would pass before the whole truth about Donora's bad air made public-health history." (The Globe and Mail Saturday December 7, 2002, book review by Andrew Nikiforuk When Smoke Ran Like Water by Devra Davis) See air pollution
Further Reading
- Davis, Devra, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, Basic Books, 2002, hardcover, 316 pages, ISBN 0-465-01521-2
- Snyder, Lynn Page, "The Death-Dealing Smog over Denora, Pennsylvania: Industrial Air Pollution, Public Health, and Federal Policy, 1915-1963", (Ph.D dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1994)
- Bryson, Chris, "A Secret History of America's Worst Air Pollution Disaster," Earth Island Journal, volume 13, Fall, 1998, available online at: http://www.earthisland.org/eijornal/fall98/fe_fall98donora.html and also at: http://www.fluoridation.com/donora.htm (the site in external links labeled "Donora Fluoride Smog coverup")]
