From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:47:19 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS, REUSE: "Homes Atop Former Tustin Air Base [CA] May Have Toxic Groundwater" |
Homes Atop Former Tustin Air Base May Have Toxic Groundwater BY NOAH BIESIADA, VIVIENNE AYRES AND SARA BASS Voice of OC (Orange County, CA) November 14, 2023 Tustin residents watched in horror last week as one of the two hangars left from former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin burned to the ground, dumping 80-year-old asbestos into the air that local health agencies didn’t notify them about for days. But this isn’t the first time public agencies have failed to inform Tustin residents about the health dangers of living next to a former marine air base. A Voice of OC investigation found the U.S. Navy sent out identical letters to three homeowners associations near the base in Nov. 2021, notifying them that the groundwater under their homes could be contaminated with toxic runoff from the base and that they planned to do more studies. … For the entire article, see https://voiceofoc.org/2023/11/homes-atop-former-tustin-air-base-may-have-toxic-groundwater/ — 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 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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