[CPEO-MEF] Kelly Air Force B ase neighbors

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Purple crosses mark health worries

Nicole Foy
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
February 26, 2005

Standing in her back yard overlooking the area once known as Kelly AFB, 
Virginia Castillo inhaled deeply.

"Can you smell it?" asked Castillo, shoving her hands in the pockets of 
her plaid housedress. "It's always here. It gets on your clothes if you 
stay outside for too long."

Castillo says a faint chemical smell has lingered around her one-story 
house in North Kelly Gardens for the 30 years she's lived there. Because 
of it, she doesn't hang clean clothes out to dry and she doesn't like 
her grandchildren to play outside too often.

Most of all, she wonders whether pollution from the former base or from 
the vast plume of contaminated groundwater that sits under her house are 
to blame for her health problems, which have included muscular problems 
and a benign glandular tumor.

So when a neighborhood activist asked if she'd display a purple wooden 
cross in her front yard to symbolize concerns over a possible link 
between her health problems and the former base's pollution, Castillo 
readily agreed.

"It think it's a good thing and that we should be vocal about all this," 
she said. "It's not something that's going away. There are still a lot 
of people who are worried."

...


For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/medical/stories/MYSA022605.1B.purple_crosses.e4491d1f.html

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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
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