[CPEO-MEF] Agent Orange concerns at Gulfport (MS) school site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Landtrust group says school site is toxic


By Elise Roberts
WLOX TV 13 News (Biloxi/Gulfport, MS)
October 23, 2008

GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - Tuesday, Gulfport's City Council approved plans to 
build a new elementary school. But one group doesn't want it to happen. 
The North Gulfport Community Landtrust fears the new school site may be 
toxic.

"Based on the advice of the environmental group, we can build a school, 
a playground, a house and whatever else. We're in great shape," said 
School Superintendent Glen East.

The North Gulfport Community Landtrust disagrees. They believe the site 
is contaminated with Agent Orange, a carcinogen that causes cancer.

"In the Vietnam War, they basically spread this on the jungles so the 
enemy wouldn't have a place to hide. Unfortunately after the war, it was 
stored improperly on the Navy Base in steel drums and leaked out over 
time and came on to many sites north of the base," said Landtrust 
founder Howard Page.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=9224111

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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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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