Well that’s nauseating beyond the standard for such things.

This hits close to home. My dad grew up in a house about a half-mile from the creek mentioned in the article; my grandparents lived in that house for almost thirty years. That said, I think they were “uphill” in the watershed from the creek, and the only unusual cancer in my family is from my own generation, which was never exposed. Grandma and Grandpa both had cancer in their senior years (brain and colon, respectively) but neither died as a result of it – Grandma’s was so slow moving that they just left it be for fifteen years until she passed from other causes! – and the health problems my dad and his siblings have are mostly hereditary in nature.