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Irvine Great Park CEO Michael D. Ellzey: Is This Man An Imposter?

Please forward this column to other Veteran organizations, especially USMC-related and networked ones.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - We are investigating the various claims and allegations made by Great Park CEO Michael Ellzey, most directly attributable to him in biographical interviews and press releases.

I’ll be using variations of “supposed, purported, allege and claim” a lot in this column because frankly, none of us believes his self-described history.

Attention Camp Lejeune Marines: Informational Meetings on Water Contamination

This is your opportunity to get informed about what happened at Camp Lejeune. Meetings will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa; Troy, New York and Tampa, Florida.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - An informational meeting about the CAMP LEJEUNE WATER CONTAMINATION effects will be held Saturday, November 6, 2010, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, located at 107 6th Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

Between sometime in the 1950’s through 1987, the US Military improperly disposed of chemical degreasers and other toxic substances that ultimately contaminated the drinking water at Camp Lejeune.

Most `Veterans `In the Dark` About Environmental Issues

Important information for Marines who served at Camp Lejeune. Veterans Service Organizations like American Legion shun alerting veterans.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) have not notified veterans of their possible exposure to environmental hazards at 130 military installations on the EPA National Priority List (Superfund sites).

There’s a critical need for the VSOs to exercise leadership by identifying the 130 military bases on the NPL, including the EPA internet link to Contaminants of Concern for each base.

`Camp Lejeune A Hearing`

The few, the proud, the Disenfranchised...

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - On 16th September Congressman Brad Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing about Camp Lejeune water contamination.

A live webcast was available and I watched most of the transmission in real time. The press releases on what occurred are very much a matter of record.

El Toro`s Most Toxic 200 Acres

Veterans of former Marine Wing Support Group-37, MCAS El Toro, California are unaware of their risk of exposure to carcinogens and many have ‘not connected the dots ‘of illness to military service.

(IRVINE, Calif. ) - Hundreds and maybe thousands of 55 gallon drums of trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) were used at MCAS El Toro over decades to degrease aircraft parts.

A major concern is that both chemicals are carcinogens. The men using them did not wear protective clothing and masks, and the waste was dumped into storm drains or directly in the ground.

Irvine Great Park Inherits Contaminants Part II

Irvine City Council Great Park Update: Questions Outnumber Answers
“Nature, red in tooth and claw…Dragons of the prime that tare each other in their slime.” - Lord Tennyson

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Well folks, there was tooth, fang and claw aplenty at the September 14, 2010 Irvine City Council meeting, a hearing that more closely resembled the jostling of a mud-infused mosh pit than civil discourse.

All I got out of it was that the rehab continues to reflect guesses about the volumes, persistence and vague timelines and strategies of contaminant remediation.

Camp Lejeune is Amerika`s Kursk

The difference is that the Kursk's sailors have all died and some Marines still have a chance.

(SALEM, Ore.) - There is a certain level of audacity in America's perceived greatness. In reality Marine and Navy brass are exactly like those in Moscow who knew the sailors aboard the nuclear submarine were dying after the vessel foundered.

El Toro Buried Drums of Toxic Chemicals

Information was reported to the Navy, who ignored the need to search for the drums.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - El Toro employees buried 55 gallon drums of toxic chemicals to avoid Marine Corps Inspector General inspections and, in the case of half-empty drums, to support the need for ordering full drums of TCE/PCE.

TCE/PCE was used for decades on the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California. These chemicals were used as degreasers for aircraft parts and for various other purposes.

Irvine City Council Wrestles El Toro Marines Over Deadly Toxins

The informational awareness of Irvine, California took a big step forward this week.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The dangerous toxicity of the El Toro Marine base was a large focus of this week's Irvine City Council meeting.

Council Members Christina Shea and Steven Choi are drawing attention to unaddressed questions about the proposed Great Park that they believe are very serious.

MCAS El Toro: Email Exchange Highlights Informational Roadblock

Proof that the committee overseeing the remediation of the environmental impacts from the closed El Toro Marine base, is simply not going to provide information to the public that it is legally bound to deliver.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - This is an email exchange between Salem-News.com's Roger Butow and Bob Woodings, city engineer in Lake Forest, California, regarding the reconfiguration of the old El Toro Marine base.

The old air station is highly contaminated according to the federal EPA which listed the base as an EPA 'Superfund site' in 1990...