[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Moffett (CA) military families worried about contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military families say they are in the dark about toxics
Residents at Moffett's Wescoat Village worry over TCE, water

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
April 4, 2013

In an anonymous letter addressed to the Army and the local community  
late last month, military families living at Moffett Field's Wescoat  
Village say they have "many concerns and requests" about living above  
polluted soil and groundwater.

The 181-unit family housing complex -- located behind Moffett's main  
gate at the north end of Moffett Boulevard -- partly sits above a  
plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) dumped or leaked over many years by  
the Navy. The vapors that rise from the ground -- when concentrated  
in buildings -- can cause cancer from long-term exposures and birth  
defects from short-term exposures, among other health problems,  
according to EPA toxicologists.

"Many of us feel we have been living here uninformed with regards to  
the nearby plume," the letter states. "We worry greatly about the  
safety of our families and often question the possibility of toxic  
vapors around us and the toxicity of our soil."



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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=6808&e=y


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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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