[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, HEALTH: South Weymouth Naval Air Station (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Submitted by David Wilmot <DCatbird37@aol.com>

To: United States Navy

From: David Wilmot,  Abington, MA Resident

Date : 06-18-2008

Re: South Weymouth Naval Air Station FOSL

Sirs,

It is my firm belief that our citizen's "inalienable rights" to "life, 
liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is being knowingly stolen from 
those of us who live, or will live in proximity to the former South 
Weymouth Naval Air Station.

This is being done to a, in most cases, populace ignorant of any current 
and impending dangers existing because of insufficient environmental 
remediation.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has continually been 
forced to lower remediation standards, by agency superiors put in their 
positions by a morally corrupt administration in Washington, who have 
chosen to turn a blind eye to emerging science.

Prior to our town's voting to approve LNR's redevelopment scheme, LNR 
announced that if the Navy failed to remove the toxic Westgate Landfill 
superfund site, then they would pay to have it done. The landfill is now 
scheduled to be buried atop the lifeless Frenches Stream, to serve as a 
perpetual source of toxins for the headwaters of the North River Watershed.

A  five year study of MS/ALS incidence proximity to the  former base, 
conducted by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, is being 
withheld from the public by the Department of Defense controlled Agency 
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. An earlier leak of findings, 
announced that an increase in ALS incidence was identified, but that 
finding will be kept from official public scrutiny until at least after 
these FOSL comments are due.

The economic concerns of the powerful, are silently stripping the future 
good health of our blue collar citizenry.

The locally involved EPA aren't given the power to truly protect us.

All of us, living in proximity to toxic military installations become 
silent victims of war, as our government continues to knowingly ignore 
sound science.

                 David A. Wilmot





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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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