[CPEO-IRF] South Weymouth Naval Air Station

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From: Dave Wilmot <DCatbird37@aol.com>

Lenny, I think your reuse audience should be interested in the back and 
forth going on here, as in this reply back to a local news reporter who 
printed an article on a local community group's attempted injunction to 
halt the start of any base redevelopment until complete characterization 
of  ground water and aquifer  underlying remaining unremediated Cercla 
sites has been responsibly completed.

Communication between former host communities is key. Please share these 
concerns with your reuse readership.

thanks, dave


[Message from Wilmot to a reporter at the Ledger:]


This story is bigger than you can imagine.

The Department of Defense is doing everything in it's power to force 
contaminated lands and waterways back on an unsuspecting public. By 
using circumvention of established Superfund law to pass former military 
bases off to greed driven developers before it is clean, is morally 
wrong, yet the current administration and political web in place 
orchestrates just that.

A mostly unsuspecting public is being force fed increased environmental 
health burden, in the name of outside financial growth.

Having been involved intimately with this base cleanup for the past 
eight years, I understand completely what the citizens group is trying 
to accomplish.

People will berate them, but they should be seen as heroes.

The developers lawyer understands nothing of the deception and lack of 
public process here.

Congressman Delahunt's office has fallen silent after staying in close 
contact with me for years.

With mounting evidence that environmentally released toxins, like those 
present in the water and soils of military bases, are increasingly held 
responsible for rising incidences of chronic disease in the world, how 
is it that our government can overlook it.

Environmental remediation is extremely costly. How costly, the 
government has yet to find out. The astronomical rise in chronic illness 
incidence surrounding Superfund designated facilities and health care 
costs out of control should make it clear to our elected officials, that 
passing off warranted Superfund cleanup of military toxins, is a grave 
mistake.

I for one applaud the patriots who step forward to do right.

If you mention my name to your editor, you'll likely be remanded, as the 
Ledger has long ago silenced any of my concerns. I have to assume that 
putting Mr. Delahunt and Mr. Kerry in an unfavorable light has damned me 
in your paper's eyes. Politics as usual damns the Public Health.

--


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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