[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Kelly Air Force Base (TX) study

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Kelly chemical results now set for year's end

By Tony Cantu
San Antonio Express (TX)
August 19, 2010

Residents living near the former Kelly Air Force Base — many of whom 
have come down with mysterious illnesses they blame on chemical seepage 
in surrounding groundwater and soil — had expected recently to hear the 
results of a sediment study centered on nearby Leon Creek.

An Aug. 3 meeting at Cuellar Community Center at 5626 San Fernando had 
been billed as one in which the results of a sediment study of lower 
Leon Creek would be released, according to the office of U.S. Rep. 
Charles Gonzalez. Hosted by the San Antonio Metropolitan Health 
District's Public Center for Environmental Health, the meeting featured 
a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Instead, officials announced study results would now be released by 
year's end. For residents in the shadows of Port San Antonio – the 
1,800-acre industrial park being developed after Kelly closed in 2001 — 
the lack of results came as no surprise.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/community/kelly_chemical_results_now_set_for_years_end_101015779.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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