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RotateTombUnduly t1_j4no9dy wrote

Chester is home to one of the country's largest waste incinerators. This makes health outcomes in Cheter far worse than other places. It actually affects a large portion of the county but it's far worse in Chester where asthma and lung cancer rates are higher.

Chester also has a high number of low income housing in it. Because of this, Chester has been engineered to be poor. You can only live in the housing if you are poor. Once you get a better job you have to move someplace else and often that place isn't Chester.

Much of this was done by the county at the expense of Chester. Chester was the power base of DelCo. The wealthier people moved out of Chester and saddled the city with all of the county liabilities - the poor people and literally all its garbage.

In spite of all this Chester is home to many people who are making Chester better.

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unenlightenedgoblin OP t1_j4np3tg wrote

Yeah I knew about the enormous refinery complex next door in Marcus Hook, but wasn’t aware of the incinerator. Definitely isn’t helping matters. Does Chester at least get some money out of it? Are any civically-minded folks at the county level doing much to help Chester out or is it kind of an unspoken continuation of the status quo?

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