[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Vapor intrusion investigation near Patrick Space Force Base , FL

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Meeting on cleanup near Patrick Space Force Base reset for Feb. 16

By Jim Waymer
Florida Today
January 25, 2023

Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be available Thursday, Feb. 16 at Pelican Beach Park Club House in Satellite Beach to discuss the status of an environmental investigation and pending cleanup of former defense sites just south of Patrick Space Force Base, a military mess that has raised fears of health risks for decades.

The meeting had been originally scheduled for November but was scrapped because of Tropical Storm Nicole.

The Corps plans to move forward with investigations and cleanups, where property owners have signed "rights-of-entry" to test for groundwater and/or soil contamination.

More than 300 homes lie within the 52-acre area south of Patrick Space Force Base targeted for cleanup. Some residents fear what dangers a shovel might one day find in their yards, from airplane parts to unexploded ordinance and drums of unknown chemicals. While nobody's been injured from an explosion yet, concerns are real.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/environment/2023/01/25/feds-holds-environmental-cleanup-meeting-near-patrick-space-force-base/69836598007/

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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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