[CPEO-MEF] WATER: Mountain Creek Lake at Dallas Naval Air Station (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mountain Creek Lake fish OK to keep but not to eat, Texas health 
officials say


By RANDY LEE LOFTIS
Dallas Morning News (TX)
October 2, 2010

Texas health officials now say it's all right to keep fish caught from 
Mountain Creek Lake. Just don't eat them.

The latest tests show elevated levels of cancer-causing PCBs and dioxin 
in fish from the western Dallas County reservoir, said Christine Mann, a 
spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services.

...

Decades of operation by the now-closed Dallas Naval Air Station, on 
Mountain Creek Lake's northwestern shore, led to groundwater pollution.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-badfish_02met.ART.State.Edition1.3328421.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>
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