https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq en-us 2017-01-09 14:08:49 UTC 2026-02-05 16:47:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040297 - Work conditions were awful as they had non stop contact with asbestos]]> 2017-01-09 16:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040297 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040565 Workers and locals were exposed to the asbestos. The workers did not care to much and work conditions were unsafe.]]> 2017-01-09 16:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040565 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040592 Some people, including the owners of Asbestos companies, Knew that Asbestos was harmful to our health as early as 1920.]]> 2017-01-09 16:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040592 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040593 For every solution there is another problem]]> 2017-01-09 16:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040593 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040663 While there are bans on asbestos use for the most part, it is not 100% banned. Mostly just very frowned upon and very difficult to get a hold of.]]> 2017-01-09 16:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040663 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040733 A company came in to clear the Ambler Boiler House and other buildings. They also started to build more houses so that people could start living there again]]> 2017-01-09 16:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040733 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040744 Asbestos has been tested by many people and groups and proven bad in every level of exposure. People want all traces of it to be removed from Ambler but it would be hard and cost a lot of money.]]> 2017-01-09 16:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040744 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040747 U Penn and many other institutions are researching what to do with the asbestos in Ambler. Every level of exposure is harmful to us. Because of that, everyone wants all of it removed, but there isn't really a safe way to remove it. ]]> 2017-01-09 16:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040747 20ahuynh https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040757 There were no air samples taken from the Ambler Asbestos piles since 1988 to see if the air was free of asbestos.]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040757 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040771 People that were around asbestos for over 20 years were 10 times more likely to get lung cancer than everyone else]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040771 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040852 ambler started to become a destination place.]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040852 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040868 There are now buildings where the old factories used to stand ]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040868 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040932 The Workers at Asbestos companies din't worry about getting infected with asbestos and rarely ever wore respirators.]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040932 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040936 Asbestos waste and being buried under factories, but trees, animals, and flooding of waterways might bring it back up]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040936 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040961 ambler became a destination place rather than a drive through place. ]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146040961 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041152 In 2011 the EPA Brown field company came into ambler to fix the boiler house. They had to power wash the whole building and the dirty water was treated and put into a sewer. The renovations costed 16 million dollars]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041152 20kbischoff https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041170 - Many people who lived in factory housing in 1930 had lung disease as their cause of death
- Between 1992-2008 they found that lung disease for Ambler was 3.1 times higher than any other residents in Pennsylvania
- 1974 was the year that further dumping was banned
- Amblers White Mountains contained more than 1.5 million cubic yards of asbestos waste that sopead over 25 acres of land]]> 2017-01-09 16:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041170 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041364 they was not buring the waste and people got sick and they was piling the waste and people be playing with them]]> 2017-01-09 16:48:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041364 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041436 Due to mesothelioma, caused by the exposure of asbestos in factories, Ambler had the highest rate of cancer and death.]]> 2017-01-09 16:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041436 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041476 -People died from asbestos 
-1st noted death from asbestos in 1900s
-20 years or more of exposure can lead to 10 times likelier to develop lung cancer
-Anyone near a asbestos factory or worked in a asbestos insulated building were at elevated risk for mesothelioma ]]> 2017-01-09 16:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041476 https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041733 People aren't pleased because of the risk that they could be exposed to asbestos if they live near or work in the buildings when old factories used to stand]]> 2017-01-09 16:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jkelly49/buifguohj3rq/wish/146041733