Mary Oscko has been at the park nearly every day for the past 29 years, however. She lives in a home that borders the park, about 100 yards from the contaminated soil.
Mary was recently diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. She is terminal and will be lucky to live two more years.
She believes the contamination caused her cancer because she would walk in the park every day for years.
For Mary, no one should be anywhere near the contamination until it’s gone.
“Let’s err on the side of being conservative,” said Oscko. “Let’s take no risk when our children are involved.”
She and a handful of other concerned citizens sought signatures from people living near the park over the weekend.
The signatures are part of a petition to close the park completely, until the remediation is complete.
The petition was turned in just after 1:30 p.m. a few hours after crews had already begun putting up fencing along the parks boundaries.
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