[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Homestead Migrant Camp Sits Dangerously Close to Polluted Superfund Sites, Activists Say, " former Homestead AFB, FL

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Homestead Migrant Camp Sits Dangerously Close to Polluted Superfund Sites, Activists Say

By JERRY IANNELLI 
Miami New Times (FL)
September 13, 2019


Advocates for the kids held at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children have already said conditions inside the facility have likely left migrant kids with permanent psychological trauma. Now, a new report issued by an activist group suggests the children might have also been poisoned there.

This week, scientists and analysts with WeCount released a 12-page report showing the Homestead detention facility, which was recently shut down for hurricane season, stands next to multiple U.S. military Superfund pollution sites. They include areas known to contain dangerous levels of arsenic, lead, mercury, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and trichloroethene. The report does not state there is direct evidence that kids held at the Homestead camp were exposed to toxic chemicals, but the activists say the federal government needs to show it has conducted extensive soil and pollution testing to prove the children there did not come into contact with trace amounts of lead or arsenic.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/the-epas-repeal-of-obama-era-clean-water-rules-will-make-it-easier-for-polluters-to-use-chemicals-linked-to-toxic-algae-near-floridas-water-11265641

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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