[CPEO-BIF] Community survey at Wichita, Kansas TCE site

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Has your family experienced unexplained illness? A Black neighborhood group will survey its members on MLK Day

by Trace Salzbrenner 
Wichita Beacon (KS)
January 11, 2023

A federal holiday since 1986, Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed in Wichita on Monday, Jan. 16. Local celebrations are planned featuring opportunities for prayer, volunteerism and community fellowship. One neighborhood activist hopes to use the opportunity to survey Black community members about any unexplained health problems.

Aujanae Bennett, president of the Northeast Millair Neighborhood Association, started conducting the survey last year after she learned about a toxic chemical spill that occurred decades ago and spread into groundwater beneath the neighborhoods near 29th and Grove. 

Trichloroethylene (TCE) was found in the groundwater in a plume that runs down Grove Street from 29th to Murdock. The carcinogenic chemical was discovered to be in the water in 1994 but Bennett and other community members say they were never informed until 2022. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/has-your-family-experienced-unexplained-illness-a-black-neighborhood-group-will-survey-its-members-on-mlk-day/ar-AA16efqH

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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