[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, CHEMWEAPONS: Orlando Toxic Gas and Decontamination Yard (FL)

[Lenny Siegel]

Bombing site to be studied for toxins

Rich McKay
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
January 8, 2009


For years Brenda Bynum wondered why so many members of her family were 
so sick.

"I thought it was our house or our block that was cursed," Bynum said. 
"It seemed that almost everyone had something or knew someone who did."

Bynum's worries intensified last summer with reports that her Azalea 
Park neighborhood was once part of the Orlando Army Air Field, Toxic Gas 
and Decontamination Yard, where World War II soldiers were exposed to 
poison gases to train them to protect themselves on the battlefield. The 
Army stored the gas on site.

Now, 50 years after the facility closed, the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers is dispatching investigators to the area to look for what may 
have been buried and left behind: bombs, gas-filled mines and possible 
toxic waste. The process will kick off with a public hearing tonight.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-cancerbomb0809jan08,0,6594116.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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