[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, COMMUNITIES: Former Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

South Side residents want concerns about old base heard

By Jeremy Roebuck
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
July 13, 2013

When doctors diagnosed Victor San Miguel with thyroid cancer 11 years  
ago, he didn't have to look far to find others who understood what he  
was facing.

Of the 13 houses on his block of Hollenbeck Avenue - feet from the  
site of the former Kelly AFB - 11 other residents have either been  
diagnosed or died from cancer-related disease, the 67-year-old said.

Sixteen years after the Air Force first acknowledged it routinely  
dumped toxic chemicals at the site and a subsequent $330 million  
government cleanup effort, San Miguel and his neighbors say they have  
been left to deal with their poor health on their own and worry about  
the pollution they fear still remains.

They rallied Saturday outside the gates of Port San Antonio, on the  
site of the former base, to demand stronger government monitoring of  
cleanup efforts and protest the disbanding earlier this year of the  
advisory board charged with overseeing the process.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/South-Side-neighbors- 
fear-contamination-risk-from-4663720.php

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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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