[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Ft. Detrick (MD) Area B - nearby homes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Family wants Area B signage to mark ongoing toxicity at Detrick

By Courtney Pomeroy
Frederick News-Post (MD)
January 15, 2012

A report showing high levels of chemical contamination at a former  
Fort Detrick dump site has one former Frederick family saying warning  
signs should be posted in the area.
State environmental officials, however, see no need for such signs.

Brandon White and his sister Angie Pieper said their family would  
never have bought its house in 1995 in the Lake Coventry neighborhood  
near the Army post's Area B had they known the military had found PCE  
and TCE -- chemicals commonly found in cleaning supplies -- leaking  
from the landfill in 1992. Wells at some houses near the site were  
found to have been affected at that time and had been connected to a  
public water supply.

"Why didn't they put up signs in 1992 when they knew that it was  
contaminated?" White asked Friday. His sister Kristen Renee and his  
mother, Debra Cross, both died of cancer, and Pieper said she has had  
several benign tumors. Neither White nor Pieper lives in the area  
now, but they have been vocal critics through the Kristen Renee  
Foundation, which asserts that problems at Area B have led to cancers  
in thousands of nearby residents.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm? 
StoryID=130600

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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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