[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "SPAWAR [CA] workers relocated due to fumes"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SPAWAR workers relocated due to fumes
TCE levels are elevated as a result of previous missile production

By Joel Hoffmann
San Diego Union-Tribune (CA)
October 2, 2014

More than 150 employees of the Navy's SPAWAR facility in Old Town  
have been moved to temporary offices elsewhere to avoid toxic vapors  
that are a vestige of the building's history as a missile and  
aircraft production plant.

The affected workers were moved last month. Some were given a choice,  
but women of childbearing age were required to relocate, according to  
documents obtained by U-T Watchdog.

The employees work in the public affairs and engineering departments  
of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/oct/02/spawar-displaced-workers- 
toxic-fumes-tce/

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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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