2019 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: South Patrick Shores (FL)
 
SOUTH PATRICK SHORES GETS SUPERFUND DESIGNATION NEARLY 30 YEARS LATER

by Abe Aboraya
WMFE Public Radio (Central Florida)
September 24, 2019   

A 32-acre stretch of South Patrick Shores in Brevard County could now be eligible for federal Superfund money to clean up contamination from nearby Patrick Air Force base.

Designating South Patrick Shores as a Formerly Used Defense Sites has been a nearly 30-year fight for locals who have long tied a myriad of health problems with the area. The area is now residential housing, but used to be housing for Airmen on base. 

Congressman Bill Posey lobbied the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency for the designation.

“It means they’re eligible for money to evaluate the area and remediate whatever’s wrong there,” Posey said. “And we know there’s something’s wrong. We don’t know exactly what it is, no one’s been able to tell us what it is.” 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wmfe.org/south-patrick-shores-gets-superfund-designation-nearly-30-years-later/136693

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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