[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Ogden Defense Depot (UT)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sick and dying workers question safety of Ogden Superfund site
By Matthew D. LaPlante
The Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
April 25, 2011


Ling Seager is dead.

So is Jim Sproul, who sat next to her in an office in the Utah  
National Guard's Joint Language Training Center. And so is Chris  
Jensen, who sat beside Sproul.

Across from Seager sat Mike Chen; he survived a brain tumor. A few  
feet away was Mark Hepper; he's dying.

Megan Cate, Scott Forman, Jackie Leedy, Andy Swatsenbarg - all of  
them worked in the same small office. All of them are sick. None of  
them knows why.

Utah National Guard leaders say it's just a "weird coincidence" that  
so many people who worked in the same office at the center have died  
or become debilitatingly ill. Their investigation into environmental  
conditions at the facility, located at a sprawling industrial park in  
northern Utah, concluded that the office was safe for its workers -  
even as engineers continue to remove toxic chemicals from the ground  
surrounding the building in the middle of an Environmental Protection  
Agency Superfund site.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51663547-78/says-hepper-center- 
guard.html.csp

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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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