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CDC to conduct health study at polluted former Army base

FILE - Rusted barrels rest outside barracks at Fort Ord on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Fort Ord, Calif. In a Nov. 4, 2022 letter to Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., the director of the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Patrick Breysse, wrote that “there are sufficient data and scientific reasons for ATSDR to re-evaluate health risks related to historical drinking water exposures at Fort Ord.” (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) FILE - Julie Akey stands for a portrait in her backyard in Herndon, Va., Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Akey, a U.S. Army veteran who had lived at Fort Ord in California and was diagnosed in 2016 at the age of 46 with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, said she is “confident that science will prove our high rate of cancers and illnesses are not a coincidence.” Akey started a Facebook group for Fort Ord veterans suffering from cancers; the number of members has swelled to nearly 1,000. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) FILE - Labeled with asbestos and lead warnings, sheeting covers rubble from demolished barracks at Fort Ord on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Fort Ord, Calif. In a Nov. 4, 2022 letter to Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., the director of the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Patrick Breysse, wrote that “there are sufficient data and scientific reasons for ATSDR to re-evaluate health risks related to historical drinking water exposures at Fort Ord.” (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)