[CPEO-BIF] "Community demands answers" at Wichita, Kansas Union Pacific TCE site

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Community demands answers at 29th and Grove groundwater contamination meeting

By Hannah Adamson
KSN TV-3 News (Wichita, KS)
May 22, 2023

A crowded meeting Friday night left many people with more questions than answers about groundwater contamination near 29th Street North and Grove in Wichita.

Two weeks before the meeting, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment released a health study showing higher liver cancer rates in the 29th and Grove environmental site.

The site is roughly from Interstate 135 on the west, 29th Street on the North, Grove on the east, and around Ninth Street on the south.

The KDHE said the contamination in the area originated with a leak of chemicals at the Union Pacific rail yard approximately 30 years ago or even as far back as the 1970s.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/community-demands-answers-at-29th-and-grove-groundwater-contamination-meeting/ar-AA1bxhxT

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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