[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Space Coast (FL) vapor intrusion investigation

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds suspect how dumpsite toxins enter Space Coast beachside homes: vapor intrusion

By Jim Waymer
Florida Today
August 29, 2021


For many years, experts struggled to explain exactly how toxic chemicals from old military dumpsites along Space Coast beaches managed to sicken residents around South Patrick Shores.

Now for the first time, after decades of denial, federal officials have signaled that they might have an answer: the cocktail of poisons come from underground in the form of vapors that seep into homes and can cause several health risks.

The admission came in an Aug. 9 presentation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to state and local government officials. In the presentation, which recommended studying indoor air quality of homes in the South Patrick Shores area, the Corps noted that indoor air quality samples might show that homes were "potentially impacted by Navy-derived waste materials."

"What jumped out at me as I read this was the emphasis on VOCs, volatile organics, as the greatest potential pathway of exposure to the residents here," said Sandra Sullivan, a South Patrick resident who's running for the Brevard County Commission Dist. 4 seat. Sullivan obtained the 70-page presentation via a public records request to the city of Satellite Beach. "This is the Corps of Engineers acknowledgement of that risk

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For the entire article, see
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/environment/2021/08/29/army-corps-thinks-dumpsite-toxins-seep-into-brevard-homes-gas-cancer-cluster-florida-pfas-pollution/5601204001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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