[CPEO-MEF] "Toxic Triangle" at Kelly Air Force Base (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Containment policy

By Gilbert Garcia
San Antonio Current (TX)
June 28, 2006

For ailing residents of Kelly's toxic triangle, answers are hard to come by

Victor San Miguel stands on the porch of his dilapidated white-frame 
house on Hollenbeck Avenue and points across the street. Without taking 
a step off his property, San Miguel provides a quick tour of his 
neighborhood, but it's a grim tour, like a slow walk through a cemetery.

"The woman in that house has leukemia," he says matter of factly. "The 
one next to her has breast cancer, and another one over there has leukemia."

San Miguel, a 60-year-old retired wrecker-driver, has lived on 
Hollenbeck for 27 years. Three years ago, he was diagnosed with thyroid 
cancer and his wife also suffers thyroid problems. He walks slowly and 
speaks in a hoarse murmur, and his right eyelid is almost perpetually 
shut. But his tattooed arms are muscular and he maintains an aura of 
toughness, albeit a fragile toughness.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16854688&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6

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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
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