[CPEO-MEF] Tallevast (FL) risk report

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tallevast fears are confirmed
Report backs residents' claims that bad well water raised cancer risk

BY CHRISTOPHER O'DONNELL
Sarasota Herald Tribune (FL)
July 11, 2007

TALLEVAST -- Tallevast residents who have claimed for years that their 
health has suffered from polluted ground water finally have a government 
report that backs them.

A recent Florida Department of Health report acknowledges that until 
2004, residents of the predominantly black community were exposed to 
pollutants in well water that increased the likelihood of kidney and 
liver cancer, leukemia and lymphoma.

...

The pollution at Tallevast was left behind by the former American 
Beryllium Co., which built parts for nuclear warheads for the federal 
government for nearly 40 years.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070711/NEWS/707110415

See also
http://www.bradenton.com/280/story/95110.html

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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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