[CPEO-MEF] RE: Military Digest, Vol 8, Issue 15

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I don't know why the posted article infers increased cancer rates and
exposure to dioxins in soldiers is a surprise.  The potential for exposure
starts with basic training.  One example, of many, is Fort Polk Louisiana.
According to soldiers that trained there, specific areas were sprayed as is
evidenced by residual pesticides in soils and groundwater including
chlordane, dieldrin, endosulfan, endrin, isodrin, heptachlor, methoxychlor,
mirex, toxaphene, alpha-BHC, alpha-chlordane, 2,4-DB, dalapont, MCPA, and
others.  Exposure to the majority of these is associated with increased risk
for specific cancers such as non-hodgkin's lymphoma.  

Laura
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Today's Topics:

   1. Viet vets and dioxin (Lenny Siegel)
   2. Tallevast plume much larger than thought (Lenny Siegel)
   3. Air Force cleanup at MMR behind schedule (Lenny Siegel)
   4. Perchlorate found in another Rialto (CA) well (Lenny Siegel)


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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:02:38 -0700
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Viet vets and dioxin
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Cancer Risk Increased for Vietnam Vets Who Didn't Spray Agent Orange

Source: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 
Newswise
April 15, 2005

Even Vietnam veterans who were not involved in spraying Agent Orange
experience higher levels of dioxin contamination, which is linked to an
increased overall risk of cancer, reports a study in the April Journal
of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

The study, conducted by a group of U.S. Air Force and other researchers,
analyzed cancer rates among nearly 1,500 Air Force veterans who served
in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, but did not actually spray
Agent Orange or other herbicides. The men served as a comparison group
in a previous study of cancer risk in veterans of Operation Ranch Hand,
the unit responsible for spraying Agent Orange.

Even though they didn't work with Agent Orange, veterans in the
comparison group had significant blood levels of TCDD, the highly toxic
dioxin contaminant of Agent Orange. The current study was designed to
assess whether low-level exposure to TCDD affected the later risk of
developing cancer.

...

For the entire press release, see
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/511148/


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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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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:21:12 -0700
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Tallevast plume much larger than thought
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@list.cpeo.org>
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Tallevast plume reaches 131 acres
Toxic area is 21/2 times larger than last thought 

SCOTT RADWAY and DONNA WRIGHT
Bradenton Herald (FL)
April 16, 2005


TALLEVAST - The plume of groundwater contamination from the former Loral
American Beryllium plant has spread over at least 131 acres in this
small residential community - more than 21/2 times larger than the most
recent estimate.

And Lockheed Martin is not done looking for cancer-causing solvents.

A new Lockheed report, sent to the state and The Herald on Friday, shows
a plume that has slithered under most of the homes surrounding the old
plant, reaches out into farmland to the southeast and northwest, and
stretches past a nearby golf course.

The contamination also appears to have leached northwest, up 15th Street
East into commercial properties, where warehouses stand and institutions
including the Airport Animal Hospital and Goodwill operate.

Lockheed, responsible for the cleanup because it purchased the site in
the late 1990s, submitted the bulk of its testing results Feb. 1.
Officials said then they were confident the plume was 50 acres and
nearly mapped. On Friday, the community was outraged to learn that the
known contamination area is vastly larger - and may grow.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11409075.htm

-- 


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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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:27:37 -0700
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Air Force cleanup at MMR behind schedule
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@list.cpeo.org>
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Cleanup at MMR hits a snag


By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
April 16, 2005

FALMOUTH - Construction of a new plume treatment system is months behind
schedule because Air Force officials have had difficulty convincing
private property owners to use their land for pipes and wells to capture
the contamination.

The new treatment plant, which is already under construction, will clean
four groundwater plumes that flow from the Massachusetts Military
Reservation.

The plumes - called Chemical Spills 20, 21 and 4, and Fuel Spill 29 -
contain volatile organic compounds and cleaning solvent, including
perchloroethene (PCE), trichloroethene (TCE), and ethylene dibromide
(EDB), above federal safety limits. 

The treatment plant, which contains 16 large carbon tanks that will
strip the contaminants from 5 million gallons of water a day, will be
completed by May.

But officials from the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence,
which runs the Otis Air Force Base cleanup, have yet to work out all the
agreements to build the parts of the system that will get the water to
the plants. The easement agreements were supposed to be signed by
December or January, said center manager Jon Davis.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/cleanupmmr16.htm

-- 


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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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:36:15 -0700
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate found in another Rialto (CA) well
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@list.cpeo.org>
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Officials discover another tainted well

RIALTO: The site near the city's airport is one of 21 
perchlorate-contaminated wells in area cities.

By JENNIFER BOWLES
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
April 16, 2005

A rocket-fuel chemical that has fouled drinking water supplies for some 
250,000 people in the San Bernardino Valley has tainted another well 
owned by Rialto, water-quality officials said Friday.

The recent discovery brings to 21 the number of wells in Rialto, Colton 
and Fontana that have been contaminated by an underground plume of 
perchlorate stretching some 7 miles from an industrial site, said Kurt 
Berchtold, assistant executive officer of the Santa Ana Regional Water 
Quality Board.

"It's extremely frustrating," said Rialto Councilman Ed Scott. Six of 
the city's 13 wells are contaminated.

Tests in late March showed levels of perchlorate at 7.4 parts per 
billion in a well near the city's airport, Robert Holub, a supervising 
engineer, told regional water board members at a meeting Friday in Loma 
Linda.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/digitalextra/environment/perchlorate/vt_stories/PE_News_Lo
cal_D_perch16.58dbb.html


-- 
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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