This is my letter to Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force, asking her to release of records and request a new Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Public Health Assessment for George AFB. What can I do? Contact the Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, the President, your Senators, and Congressman or Congresswoman and request a new Public Health Assessment for George AFB. Over [Read More…]
The Southeast Disposal Area’s RW-09 radioactive disposal site is physically located about a ¼ mile upstream of the Drinking Water Supply Wells for George AFB, Adelanto, CA, several homes, and the former Victor Valley Country Club. Unfortunately, the groundwater flows northeast from the SEDA, directly toward these drinking water supply wells. This created a potential exposure to tens of thousands of civilians, and military [Read More…]
If you lived in George AFB’s Family Housing, built before 1988, you were probably exposed to unsafe levels of chlordane and other organochlorine pesticides (“OCPs”). The Air Force knew that the housing and soil under/around the base housing were contaminated with unsafe levels of OCPs that could present a risk to human health. Additionally, the Air Force knew that there was NO safe [Read More…]
Treasure Island Naval Station was home to US Navy’s Nuclear War Academies The navy’s nuclear war academies used a variety of radionuclides in their training The Navy did not acknowledge that history publicly, and as a result, cleanup crews and others preparing for redevelopment may have inadvertently spread radioactive material around the island. “CIR has found that the history of the nuclear work done at Treasure [Read More…]
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