Public looks for link between diseases and south side contamination
Sunday, August 27th 2017, 7:11 pm PDTSunday, August 27th 2017, 7:25 pm PDTBy Evan Schreiber, Reporter
PIMA COUNTY, AZ (Tucson News Now) - Health officials worked to keep people informed during a Community Teach-In on Sunday afternoon, August 27.
Experts fielded questions about past past contamination of groundwater on Tucson?s south side, as the public expressed their health concerns.
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"According to the EPA, between the 1940s and 1980s, the U.S. Air Force and Hughes Missile Systems Co. used products containing the toxic chemicals trichloroethylene (TCE) and 1,4-dioxane as industrial solvents and improperly disposed of the solvents by dumping them into unlined wells," a news release from the U of A College of Public Health stated....
Sunday, August 27th 2017, 7:11 pm PDTSunday, August 27th 2017, 7:25 pm PDTBy Evan Schreiber, Reporter
PIMA COUNTY, AZ (Tucson News Now) - Health officials worked to keep people informed during a Community Teach-In on Sunday afternoon, August 27.
Experts fielded questions about past past contamination of groundwater on Tucson?s south side, as the public expressed their health concerns.
...
"According to the EPA, between the 1940s and 1980s, the U.S. Air Force and Hughes Missile Systems Co. used products containing the toxic chemicals trichloroethylene (TCE) and 1,4-dioxane as industrial solvents and improperly disposed of the solvents by dumping them into unlined wells," a news release from the U of A College of Public Health stated....