[CPEO-IRF] Moffett Military Housing contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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