NOT FADE AWAY

Dallas EPA is doing what it can to look out for Dallas's interests at the Dallas Naval Air Station/NWIRP area-and at an especially difficult juncture.
The Navy is taking steps to back out of its responsibility to clean up groundwater in this vast area-water the Navy totally ruined through years of military/aircraft operations; and EPA is responding.
EPA has done appropriately thorough testing in every area I've studied, and can explain the results to my satisfaction, so far - telling citizens like myself which situations are relatively safe and which are not. The problem is WE HAVE STILL BEEN LEFT WITH UNSAFE LAND, GROUNDWATER, AND A HUGE POLLUTED LAKE. We have been left with possibly a billion dollars worth of damage - present remediation which has been somewhat but not completely successful notwithstanding. No one is happy about that loss, and frankly it's difficult to tell who has the power to prevail in a dispute. I have to wonder: Does EPA think all parties will come to a friendly agreement? Or meet at the courthouse?
But back to good news - I learned today that EPA is standing firm in its request that the Navy monitor buildings used by the Texas Air Reserve at the Naval Air Station for carcinogenic TCE air vapor. And EPA is speaking out to TCEQ about Dallas' needs.
We all await the evaluations by the new EPA director regarding the Naval Station and the Navy; and dangers like radioactive water spewing forth from the Barnett Shale; and now is a wonderful time for citizens to speak out about the environment.
Please continue to think about the extreme seriousness of water ruin. Remember the water cycle-how we don't get "more" water; water changes form and all water ultimately interacts in nature. When the military poisoned water; it in effect poisoned soil, crops, animals, and even humans in the cycle of life. We can use our collective intelligence to devise ways to exist in an urban wasteland, but the problem will never fade away. Right now, the Navy wants to do nothing more about remaining contaminated, carcinogenic plumes in the ground on their former Dallas property. Do you have an opinion about this? Your voices are the only
factors the Navy, EPA, TCEQ, and the mayor's office can't control.