[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Toxic chemicals found in homes near Fort Gillem" (GA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic chemicals found in homes near Fort Gillem
Army tests reveal hazardous compounds may have come from groundwater plume


By Shannon McCaffrey
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA)
September 4, 2014


Toxic vapor is accumulating in some homes near Fort Gillem, suggesting carcinogens dumped at the U.S. Army base decades ago may have migrated from the groundwater into the air residents breathe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.

Tests conducted this summer found hazardous chemicals in levels high enough to pose a danger to human health in the air of 26 of 29 homes sampled. More than 200 buildings are still to be tested, including a day care center close to the former military depot, just south of Atlanta.

Army officials will begin informing residents of the results in the coming days and offering to install ventilation systems for affected homeowners.

Less clear is what additional steps military brass will take to stem the flow of chemicals at their source: burial sites on the base where engine oil and other toxic industrial solvents were dumped for years before the practice was outlawed. Those contaminants have found their way into groundwater that has seeped off the base in a plume that stretches for nearly one mile into a residential community.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/toxic-chemicals-found-in-homes-near-fort-gillem/nhGFB/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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