[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: "Harrison County [IA] neighbors believe cancer cases linked to contaminants from Cold War missile sites"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Harrison County neighbors believe cancer cases linked to contaminants from Cold War missile sites

By Katrina Markel
KMTV TV-3 News
March 25, 2026

MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa — Neighbors in Harrison County who bought their dream homes in the country say their well water is making them sick. The Army Corps of Engineers said contaminants left over from Cold War missile sites in the 1960s are still polluting wells in the area.

The chemical plume making its way through rural wells is TCE, a solvent linked to cancer and Parkinson’s disease.

"There are one, two, three, four, five — is that right — five landowners and all of the five have cancers of some sort," Jackson Summers said sitting at his kitchen table.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.3newsnow.com/southwest-iowa/harrison-county-neighbors-believe-cancer-cases-linked-to-contaminants-from-cold-war-missile-sites#google_vignette

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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