[CPEO-MEF] Fort Worth Depot

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic material lingers at depot

By Scott Streater
Star-Telegram (TX)
September 19, 2004

FORT WORTH -- The old Army supply depot south of downtown looks harmless 
enough.

Inside the chain-link fence, children frolic on a preschool playground. 
Just outside, picnic tables await families in a city park and residents 
while away the hours fishing in a small lake.

But there's a hidden danger: Lead, arsenic and other toxic chemicals 
remain in the soil and water at the Fort Worth Federal Center, which for 
six decades stored raw materials for the military.

A Star-Telegram investigation has found that more than a dozen 
pollutants -- including a suspected stash of the highly toxic herbicide 
Agent Orange -- are spread throughout the center's 278 acres and beyond, 
including the preschool and the park.

Federal regulators say they do not believe that there's an immediate 
health risk, but they acknowledge that they don't know. Further studies 
are planned this fall.

Yet, environmental inspectors have warned for years that children and 
other park users could be at risk from cancer-causing agents, and they 
have long recommended that the site be cleaned, according to the 
Star-Telegram review of more than 5,000 pages of federal, state and city 
records.

…

for the entire article, see
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/9705502.htm?1c

--
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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