Polluted water at military bases; Fort Ord; cancer; dozens of chemicals known to cause cancer, found in the base’s drinking water and soil;

What Lies Beneath: Vets Worry Polluted Base Made Them Ill

https://apnews.com/article/us-army-fort-ord-chemical-exposure-cancer-c1078dd520322f2a4130e2f7077b7892

But in 1990, four years before it began the process of closing as an active military training base, Fort Ord was added to the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the most polluted places in the nation. Included in that pollution were dozens of chemicals, some now known to cause cancer, found in the base’s drinking water and soil.