there was a cluster of ALS patients in the football 49er team in around 1980. My father died of ALS at this time also. There was a suspicion that the turf was fertilized with Milorganite a product from Milwaukee sewage. My Dad was using it on his lawn. No one ever really proved the relationship, but I think the product was pulled from use at the old Kezaar.Stadium,

I find this disturbing. Thank you for the article. I worked in these NASA buildings.
I'm torn between the fact that you pretty much can't swing a dead cat in California without hitting a Superfund site (so,mwhats the big deal?), and the reality that we all live here and cancer, autoimmune disease, chronic illness and allergies have skyrocketed in the last 30 years.

I see Google has come in to the EXACT location where those big corporations were busted in the 1980s for dumping toxic waste. It wasn't just this location, it was all over Santa Clara County. As a teen, I'd be at afterschool sports and it seemed like every day another coma you, where someone's father worked, was in the news and busted for chemical waste.

I've seen a few posts by people who appreciate Google's prescience, but they apparently don't remember what caused the depression here back then was all those companies when they abandoned their buildings, leaving them empty for a decade. They were empty until the real estate prices rise high enough that they outweighed the cleanup costs. The old GE and Fairchild sites were bulldozed in Dec, 1996, and into 1997. The dirt was hauled away and replaced from what I saw. Businesses and expensive homes were built where these old buildings had been.

I see the monster businesses coming in to Mountain View and people don't get it. These companies come in, trash the environment in the name of progress and then leave when they've made it so toxic that they're no longer allowed to occupy their own buildings. We, the residents of Mountain View, are left holding the bag, the economic downturn, the toxic waste, the lack of oxygen because open space and plants have been destroyed for more buildings in the name if housing or industry.

I don't blame NASA. I worked there and it was a wonderful experience. NASA is one of the few sources of real scientific research. I blame the greedy industries, obsessed with marketing campaigns and selling junk that no one needs, wants or can afford. We don't need them here.

The three companies responsible for the original Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman Superfund site remediation were Intel, Fairchild, and Raytheon.

The amount and distribution of TCE under Moffett is not at all entirely due to the plume from the M-E-W sources. The Navy used to wash airplanes with TCE, and the M-E-W plume has merged with the large Moffett plume.

My brother worked in the Fairchild " Rust Bucket " as it was called then. Even the " bunny suits " did not keep people safe during the fabrication of semiconductor wafers. We worked with " two step " gases. That meant you can take two steps before you died from exposure to them. Arsine, silane and several other very toxic gasses are used in semiconductor wafer fabrication. We even had full kits of SCUBA gear to drag the bodies of exposed people from the fab areas.
I am not surprised at the toxic water plume has reached so far, I'm just glad it does not threaten our house in Mountain View near the 85 and Moffett intersection.

My father owned the Chevron station at the corner of Whismon and Middlefield. Both he and my grandmother (who worked there daily to do the accounting) died of Parkinson's. My brother, sister, and I worked there for years, and are in fear that we too will get one of these neurological diseases. Is there a group we can join to track this? I've heard along Whisman, there has been a huge Parkinson's cluster. From what I was told by the City of Mt. View, there is no "link" to the ground contamination and these diseases! I say NO!!!! Someone needs to do something about this!!!! We need help and restitution for the lives lost, and the many families who have suffered helping and watching their loved ones die of these horrible diseases!!!

These chemicals are not only affecting the NASA workers. We lived on base in Westcoat Village for 5 1/2 years. I did not work at the time of our arrival, I was a full time college student taking mostly online classes and was home pretty much all of the time. I knew several women including myself that were having all kinds of health problems. I did not know anything about how toxic it was in Mountain View, and on base. And by the time I found out it was too late. My health has been adversely affected when I had a serious fall when I lived there, and am now disabled because of it. I had become a total klutz and kept injuring myself and couldn't figure out why. And as time went on I started having all kinds of health problems. We ended up moving from a 2-story home to a single level handicap accessible house, and by the time we left I was bedridden 24/7. That second home was definitely more toxic than the first. While there I was laying in bed watching the ceiling around the heater vents turning black, thinking this place is killing me and I'm going to die here. I could feel my body shutting down. But when you try to talk to people, like doctors, about it they look at you like you are nuts. It was crazy, and I know that place was killing me. I went from being a perfectly health middle aged woman with only some neck/back pain to being disabled and unable to work. The EPA had a meeting in housing where they stated the housing office didn't have to warn us about the environment around us because we were only renters. They tested my house and it tested high for vapors, but the EPA said they were another kind and not TCE. I think it's shameful that the government thinks it's okay to put our military and their families in such a place, and without warning them of the possible effects on their health due to it being on a superfund site. They ruined my life, and no one even cares.

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Just an update:

I asked the Council about the indeterminate problem with TCE, and Lenny Siegel criticised my question by saying he had up to date ambient TCE data. Alana Lee stated that 1 PPM is considered unsafe. Conversion means 1000 micrograms per litre.

From what I can see, the latest Vapor data results I can find on the EPA website was 2014. This information seems extremely out of date. So far I have not received any updates. Lenny Sigal claims to have up to date data, I look forward to receiving it.

Lenny Siegel tonight during the City Council Meeting break claimed to me that the NBC Investigates report I have been using as a reference was presenting false information. I was completely surprised he would say that. So I asked why didn't he seek a retraction or correction in the story? He didn't seem to indicate he ever tried. This behavior activated my suspicious reptilian brain. My intent is to contact Steven Stock who broadcast the following report (Web Link

I await an email by Lenny Siegel to explain how the report could be misleading.

My first reaction to this comment was that if such a misleading story existed, how could the NBC Investigates broadcast this news story? They surely would do all efforts to fact proof the story so that no one could disqualify its validity. From what I see, Steven Stock has no history of making false statements or even accidentally broadcasting misleading stories. I am concerned we are being given another "fake news" excuse.

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