[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, REUSE: "20 years later, Fort Gillem [GA] contamination still spreading"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

20 years later, Fort Gillem contamination still spreading


By Katie Leslie and Shannon McCaffrey
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA)
April 13, 2013

In the early 1990s the U.S. Army discovered hazardous chemicals  
dumped at Fort Gillem seeping into residential wells in neighboring  
Forest Park. The finding prompted the military to pass out bottled  
water and convert many residents to a county water system from their  
private wells.

But two decades and a base closure later, state officials say the  
Army still hasn’t done enough to clean up known and suspected  
carcinogens that are migrating from groundwater into surface water  
and, potentially, into the air residents breathe.

State environmental officials worry that dangerous concentrations of  
toxic industrial solvents could be present in nearby Joy Lake, where  
many fish and eat their catch. They fear that the underground  
concentration of one volatile solvent is so high that toxic vapor may  
be accumulating inside homes. They’re not convinced the source of the  
contamination is contained. And they say the Army hasn’t done enough  
to warn residents of potential danger.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/20-years-later-fort-gillem- 
contamination-still-spr/nXJ2w/

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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
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