[CPEO-MEF] Kelly Air Force Base (TX) and cancer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Triangle? Is Contamination Connected to Liver Cancer Cases

Tanji Patton
News 4 WOAI (San Antonio, TX)
November 13, 2006

There is an area in San Antonio where the cancer rate is twice as high 
as the rest of Texas. A place where, on average, one person dies every 
single week from liver cancer. It is true and it's the focus of my 
Trouble Shooters investigation.

...

There is a contaminated shallow aquifer that runs under about 22,000 
homes on the south and southwest sides of town, an area known to some as 
the toxic triangle.

Some areas of the triangle, tested in 1999, were shown to have amounts 
of the toxic "TCE" at 20 times the Environmental Protection Agency's 
acceptable level.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=81261C0D-1F56-40FE-83BA-37C8416598BD

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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