. >> my third daughter was born in 1989, and unfortunatetely, s bebecame sick relativelely quic when she was about 10 months old, we discovered she had cancer. and unfortunately, only survived until she was 14 months old. at that time i in 1990 when she passed away, there was really not a thought that it was related to any type of the environmental problems. >> by this time linda gillick had started her own cancer assistance nonprofit, ocean of law. and it was her early observations of cancer in the community y that drove further investigation. >> i i put u up a map of the wh counun s so that we could see where o our childreren were loc for our case workerers. and as the years w went on, we noticed that toms river had . come one big dark area and it was a bibig concern. i d did reach out to the state health department numerorous times and told ththem o of my concern and was told over a and over again thahat t there was n problem. >> only later in the 1990's, ththe mid 1990's was there more and more information that was coming o out. but,t, you know, some of the water supply had been