There will be an open public Health Study meeting regarding health effects on people who live within the vicinity of Northampton Regional Landfill on Glendale Rd. on Tuesday, September 23rd at 7:00 PM in the Community Room of JFK Middle School, Bridge Road, Northampton

The Massachusetts Department of Health (DPH) will be presenting their study for the first time. The MA DPH has a very strict policy not to release any of their reports until they have presented them publicly.

Gradient Corporation, City hired consultants, will be discussing their results.

Dr. Richard Clapp will be presenting his review of the Gradient study. Dr. Richard Clapp is a Harvard Graduate and Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University and has over thirty years of experience in public health. Please see a link to Dr. Clapp’s bio on the Boston University website below.

http://sph.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_sphdir&id=239&Itemid=340&INDEX=588

He was asked by the citizen’s watchdog group, Citizens United for a Healthy Future, www.savingparadise.info to conduct the Gradient review and is doing the review pro bono.