[CPEO-MEF] Asbestos at old Navy brracks in Klamath falls (OR)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Families seek escape from asbestos site 

Residents ask EPA help to move, as Oregon sues the developer, who
ignored warnings of the waste 

BRENT WALTH 
The Oregonian 
March 27, 2005

Residents of a Klamath Falls subdivision who discovered they live on an
asbestos waste burial site are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency to relocate them now that a new study says exposure  the soil
could put their children's health at risk. 

The request comes as the Oregon Department of Justice has hit the site's
developer with a $3 million racketeering lawsuit, alleging he
fraudulently sold properties without telling buyers about the asbestos
burials. 

In addition, newly released court records show that the developer, Mel
Stewart, testified last month that he disregarded a warning about
asbestos at the site more than a decade ago. 

...

The asbestos debris came from buried pipe insulation and materials such
as siding and roofing that were used in more than 80 buildings when the
site was a World War II Navy barracks. The state of Oregon later owned
the site and used it as the original home of the Oregon Institute of Technology.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1111834914101540.xml

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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>
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