Federal officials are conducting a new study to determine whether veterans stationed at a former military base were exposed to dangerously high levels of cancer-causing toxins, following an AP investigation that found the drinking water was contaminated.
Akey started a Facebook group for Fort Ord veterans with cancer. The number has grown to nearly 1,000.Fort Ord was added
The AP’s review of public documents showed the Army knew that chemicals had been improperly dumped at Fort Ord for decades. Even after the contamination was documented, the Army played down the risks. published in 1996, found that toxins in the soil and in the aquifers below Fort Ord were not likely to pose a past, present or future threat to those living there.But that conclusion was based on limited data supplied by the military and before medical science understood the relationship between some of the chemical exposures and cancer, particularly TCE.
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