[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: Air Force proposes to shutter Kelly AFB (TX) Restoration Advisory Board

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Air Force moves to shutter community board overseeing toxic pollution  
at Kelly AFB

By Michael Barajas
San Antonio Current (TX)
April 18, 2012

Robert Alvarado is a decades-long veteran of life in the so-called  
Toxic Triangle, the small fence-line community that bumps up against  
the now-shuttered Kelly Air Force Base. At 70, Alvarado struggles  
with kidney problems and is nearly blind from an aneurysm. Both his  
wife and daughter are fighting off thyroid cancer, while a cousin,  
once a worker at the base, lost his battle with liver cancer six  
years ago.

"Our fight for justice here is far from over," repeats Alvarado, one  
of many past and present community members who continue to blame the  
neighborhood's health woes, at least in part, on the dumping of  
industrial solvents and other toxic chemicals in and around Kelly  
decades ago.

However, U.S. Air Force officials contend we're now "in the home  
stretch" in scrubbing Kelly's toxic past clean. Plans to dissolve an  
advisory board made of up regulatory officials and community members  
by the end of 2012 were floated at last week's gathering of the  
Restoration Advisory Board by Air Force Real Property Agency  
spokeswoman Linda Geissinger. Numerous community members and several  
scientists who have investigated the site say such an action would be  
premature.


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For the entire article, see
http://sacurrent.com/news/air-force-moves-to-shutter-community-board- 
overseeing-toxic-pollution-at-kelly-afb-1.1301450

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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