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Goal: 500 Responses

Your responses will help us:
Identify possible disease clusters linked to environmental exposures
Understand how pollution may be impacting our health today
Amplify community voices to advocate for environmental justice, cleanup, and funding
Build a clearer picture of how proximity to local landfills, and other known contamination zones may affect local families. This information will only be used to help identify potential disease clusters and environmental pollution hotspots within Cherokee County. It allows us to map health data more accurately in relation to known contamination zones such as old mining sites, factories, or landfills.

🔒 Privacy Statement
Your privacy and trust are extremely important to us. This survey includes an optional question asking for your street address or nearest intersection. Your address will never be shared, published, or released to any third party. It will be kept confidential and used solely for research and community health analysis. You are not required to provide your full address to participate. A ZIP code is all that’s needed to contribute meaningfully to this study.

 

Cherokee County Kansas Environmental Risk Survey

Environmental Risk Assessment for Cherokee County Kansas Residents.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Have you ever heard of the Tar Creek Superfund Site?
The Tar Creek Superfund Site, located just 18 miles away, is one of the nation’s most toxic former mining areas. Due to prevailing west-to-east wind patterns, airborne particulate matter, including heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic, can travel into surrounding communities, especially during storms, tornadoes, or dry windy days. Awareness of Tar Creek is critical, as its contamination could pose regional health risks, not just local one.
Your ZIP code helps us understand which areas of Cherokee County may be more impacted by pollution or environmental health concerns. This information is essential for identifying patterns and protecting public health. We will never ask for your name or full address unless you choose to provide it.
(This helps us identify possible disease or pollution hotspots. Your address will never be shared and will only be used for community health mapping.) If you're not comfortable sharing your full address, please provide one of the following: the nearest intersection, the name of your neighborhood, the nearest school or landmark.
Do you live near a landfill?
Certain job sectors, such as manufacturing, mining, and agriculture, can involve high levels of chemical or particulate exposure that may impact respiratory, neurological, or reproductive health. Tracking employment sectors helps identify occupational exposure clusters and better understand the relationship between work environments and community health trends.
Please check all medical conditions you are CURRENTLY experiencing.
Please select all medical conditions you have experienced in the last 10 years.
Please check any medical experiences your child(ren) have.
Please check any medical experiences your child(ren) have experienced in the last 10 years.
Has anyone in your household had a miscarriage or stillbirth with no known cause?
Please enter a number from 1 to 100.
Please enter a number from 1 to 100.
Has anyone in your household tested positive for lead poisoning?
Has your property or yard ever been tested positive for lead or heavy metals?
Has your soil been replaced or remediated due to high lead levels in the past 20 years?
Has anyone in your household experienced frequent nausea or metallic taste after gardening or yardwork?
Do your children or pets play in bare soil or unpaved yards on a regular basis?
Have you noticed discolored soil, standing water, or dead patches in your yard that do not resolve over time?
Was your home built before 1978?
Do you have mining chat in your foundation?
Are your HVAC ducts in the floors?
Did you ever play in mining chat or swim in mining holes as a child?
If yes, please provide the best way to reach you (email, phone, or mailing address):

Why We’re Clearing the Air

Source(s):

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6733a7.htm

This is the map that helped me find my path in this life. In 2017, I miscarried a sweet baby boy, and they told me there was no reason why, sometimes these things just happen. While I have come to understand that to be true sometimes, there is a part of me that can’t get behind the “No reason why.”

This motivated me to start looking into infant loss and infertility rates in America, and I was surprised when I found this map. It was the first map that changed how I viewed the world around me. I wanted to understand why infertility rates are higher in the south, in our farming states, or along waterways. I decided I had to go to college to understand the science behind it.

Who would have known I’d learn to make these maps one day?

Now, I have launched my “Clearing the Air” environmental risk survey because I want to know if there are factors at play that are causing us to lose our babies with “no reason why.”

I believe there are more reasons then we know, maybe it’s that we grew up playing in mining waste or living in a factory hub.

If you haven’t already, please consider taking my survey.

Let your voice be heard 🫶💛 – Kaylann Loraine