2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 21 Jul 2006 17:17:42 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Moffett Military Housing contamination
 
Orion Park pollution still a mystery

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
July 21, 2006

Just outside the Moffett Field main gate is a rare sight in the booming housing market of Silicon Valley: a large, completely vacant apartment complex.

Orion Park was once home for National Guard, Army and Navy families based at Moffett field. And for some civilians it was below-market-rate housing.

Now it's a ghost town. At night the street lights are still lit, but there is no one around except a few straggling residents with a U-Haul truck parked outside. The grass is dead, the buildings are plain and worn and a ballpark sits unused.

How the groundwater underneath the facility became polluted with Trichloroethane (TCE) has been a mystery for years. A few years ago residents reported strange health problems, and the Navy and Environmental Protection Agency found TCE vapors seeping into homes from the water table underneath. The chemical is believed to be a carcinogen which can cause kidney and liver disease.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=1790

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