[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Fort Ord and ATSDR

[Lenny Siegel]

Summary of correspondence between Julie Peters Akey and ATSDR officials regarding Akey’s petition request concerning contamination at Fort Ord, CA 
Part 2 of a 5-part series 

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
October 8, 2023

On August 14, 2022, Julie Peters Akey petitioned the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, (ATSDR) to conduct a new Public Health Assessment and Health Consultation to reevaluate past exposures to contaminated drinking water for members of the military and their dependents stationed at Fort Ord, California. The petition requested a new assessment because of the availability of new scientific data since the 1996 ATSDR assessment and because of the extraordinary number of people diagnosed with various cancers and diseases.

The ATSDR is also evaluating a similar petition request, submitted by the Honorable Katie Porter,  (D-CA – 45)  Representative Porter requested that ATSDR conduct a new health assessment of contaminated drinking water at Fort Ord to determine if the drinking water could have caused harmful health effects. 

Akey informed the ATSDR that she filed the petition on behalf of 1,200 people in her Cancer and Illnesses from Fort Ord Facebook group. The number of diseased residents has now swelled past 1,250 souls.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/summary-of-correspondence-between-julie-peters-akey-and-atsdr-officials-regarding-akeys-petition-request-concerning-contamination-at-fort-ord-californianbsp

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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