caption: <PERSON> stands in the front yard of her Fifth Ward neighborhood home on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in Houston. A cancer cluster was identified in the the historically black north Houston neighborhoods of the Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens, near a site of legacy contamination from rail yard operations. Creosote was used for decades to treat wooden railroad ties in the yard. Though wood treatment has ceased for many years, the creosote sunk deep into the ground, creating a plume that has moved beneath an estimated 110 homes. The cancers identified in the cluster are associated with the contaminants found in creosote.
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