[Military Environmental Forum] HEALTH, VOCs: Fort Ord (CA) draft Health Consultation

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has released a draft Health Consultation re-evaluating contamination levels in the 1985–1994 Fort Ord, California drinking water. ATSDR assessed whether these exposures posed a health risk in the past. It concluded, “From 1985 to 1994, residents and soldiers-in-training who drank, showered, washed, and cooked with water from former Fort Ord and MCWD [Marina Coast Water District] drinking wells were not at risk for health effects due to contaminant exposures. Before 1985, ATSDR cannot conclude whether contaminants in former Fort Ord and MCWD drinking water systems could have harmed people’s health. 

For the official fact sheet and information on submitting comments (deadline August 22), go to https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/pha/FormerFordOrd/FortOrd-Factsheet-508.pdf. 

For the full report, go to https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/pha/FormerFordOrd/FortOrd-HC-508.pdf

Lenny

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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
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)

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