[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, ENCROACHMENT: Robins Air Force Base (GA) groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Other pollution, distrust of government cloud water issue

BY S. HEATHER DUNCAN
Macon Telegraph (GA)
August 15, 2010

The Feagin Road area where a groundwater cleanup is under way is within 
the "encroachment zone" for Robins Air Force Base. Bibb County and other 
governments are interested in buying up residential properties there and 
moving people out of the noisy area to try to protect the base and its 
options for future missions.

The process has been contentious, and many neighbors say they distrust 
local government officials. Those suspicions lead residents such as Dave 
Hutchinson to be suspicious of any government warnings about the water.
Hutchinson, who lives on Kearnes Drive, said the Macon Water Authority 
extended water lines to the area about 15 years ago as a result of water 
contamination concerns.

Frank Amerson, chairman of the Macon Water Authority, remembers that the 
authority received a grant to pay for the water line extension because 
of the pollution.

Neighbors remember a variety of stories about the nature and source of 
the pollution cited at that time, but it seems to have been unrelated to 
the pipeline.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2010/08/15/1229609/other-pollution-distrust-of-government.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
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