[h=3]Public looks for link between diseases and south side contamination[/h] 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....
