Don's Home Health Cause of Death Cancer NJ Forever Chemicals - Cancer rate in our neighborhood
From a recent interview of Dr. Hari Iyer, a cancer epidemiologist in the Department of Medicine, Rutger s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute. He talked about how How New Jersey's Limits on "Forever Chemicals" in Tap Water Brought Levels Down

New Jersey had one of the highest levels of PFAS in in drinking water in the country.
Levels of toxic “forever chemicals” in New Jersey's public water systems dropped by as much as 55% after the state moved to limit the contaminants in drinking water,

The was no link between PFAS and Prostrate cancer according to:
PFAS Exposure and Risk of Cancer | National Cancer Institute He started his career studying prostate cancer and is doing another study
Understanding Chemicals in Drinking Water and Prostate Cancer.

For 40 years (1978 - 2018) we lived 1.5 miles from the American Cyanamid superfund site in Bridgewater. We were at the top of the first range of the Watchung Mountains and Cyanamid was at the bottom 400' below. (Yes, they call 400' a mountain in NJ)
5 out of 10 homes at the West end of Merriam Dr. in Martinsville NJ, where we lived had people who had died of cancer, including my wife..
We had well water for the first 10 years.
American Cyanamid was releasing a range of contaminants directly into the Raritan River.from the early 1930's to 1985.

Overall, though it was a pretty good place at the Southern edge of The Somerset Hills, 14 miles from a nice golf course before the rif-raf (Trump) took it over, 6 miles from Dorris Dukes' 2,700 acre estate and 1/4 mile from a historic landmark, Middlebrook Washington's Rock, Middlebrook.