[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, HOUSING: "When Laurel Bay [SC] families didn’t know who to trust, they turned to each other"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

When Laurel Bay families didn’t know who to trust, they turned to each other

BY KASIA KOVACS
Island Packet (SC)
DECEMBER 13, 2017

The trouble started with a giant dirt hole that appeared in Michelle Conner’s front yard.

That’s how Conner remembers it, anyway. It was 1999, and she was 9 and living in the Laurel Bay Marine housing community near Beaufort. All she knew was this: One day she could ride her bike in the front yard, and the next day she couldn’t.

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Then, in January, she saw a video on Facebook. In the video, a Marine wife named Amanda Whatley spoke about her child Katie, who was diagnosed with leukemia. Whatley and her family questioned whether Katie’s cancer had something to do with heating oil storage tanks buried under the ground of Laurel Bay. Heating oil that had leaked — potentially for decades — was suspected of contaminating the ground with benzene, a known carcinogen, and naphthalene, a possible carcinogen


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For the entire article, see
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/community/beaufort-news/bg-military/article188637639.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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