[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, CHEMWEAPONS: Former Orlando [FL] Army Airfield, Toxic Gas and Decontamination Yard

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents cite health concerns

By GARY ROBERTS
East Orlando Sun (FL)
February 23,2009


At the conclusion of a public hearing called to update residents on a 
World War II-era poison-gas testing site in Azalea Park, many of the 
more than 300 people in attendance lined up to speak, searching for 
answers to their concerns.

There were questions about falling home prices as a result of the 
current government investigation, and worries if their own homes and 
yards would be tested for soil and water contamination.
But mostly there was anguish over the long-term effects this bygone 
military facility might have on their health, and on the health of their 
families and their neighborhood.

Mary Lobianco’s home on Egan Drive is located at ground zero of where 
storage tanks were filled with mustard gas; Lewisite, a deadly arsenic 
compound; and other cancer-causing chemicals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.eosun.com/article-665-residents-cite-health-concerns.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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