[CPEO-MEF] PAVE PAWS Radar on Cape Cod (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Research on PAVE PAWS health effects nears end


By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
June 16, 2006

SAGAMORE - After five years and an expenditure of more than $6 million, 
tomorrow could be the final chance for Cape Codders to ask the Air Force 
and local officials health questions about the Cape radar station.

...

The steering group - made up of health officials from Cape towns and a 
state epidemiologist - watched over Air Force-funded research into the 
radar, which locals worried could be the cause of high cancer rates on 
the Upper Cape.

Steering group members have declined comment, saying they will wait 
until tomorrow to give a final public statement about the radar or any 
further actions that should be taken by the state or the Air Force.

Since a National Academy of Sciences panel found no evidence of adverse 
health effects from the radar, more research is unlikely to uncover 
problems, said Lt. Col. Paul Legendre, an Air Force liaison to the 
steering group. ''There are things we can do that will help further 
science,'' he said. ''It's just, how loud of a 'no' do you want?''

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/researchon16.htm


See also
GPS data applied to link radar emissions, cancer

By ROBIN LORD
Cape Cod Times (MA)
June 16, 2006

DENNISPORT - Bernie Young will ask the PAVE PAWS Steering Committee 
again tomorrow - as he has many times before - why the Air Force is not 
monitoring the level of radiation coming from the Sagamore facility.

"We're monitoring Pilgrim (Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth), we 
monitor air quality, and people have to monitor when they put in an 
alternative septic system, but PAVE PAWS gets a free ride?" he said.

The Dennisport professional engineer and naval architect took a close 
look at the phased array radar station after his 20-year-old daughter, 
Holly, was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, in 
2004. He concludes there are points of land on Cape Cod that receive 
more exposure than other areas to microwave radiation from the radar 
station. And Young thinks that increased direct exposure could be 
unhealthy for people in those areas.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/gpsdata16.htm

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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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