November 3, 2007 - Residents of this polluted community want a defense contractor to suspend cleanup-related activities at a former beryllium plant, saying they fear the work could be causing health problems.
But state environmental and health officials and Lockheed Martin Corp. said there's no link between the work and resident complaints of headaches, nausea and burning nostrils and throats.
Lockheed recently installed two extraction wells at the former Loral American Beryllium plant at 1600 Tallevast Road. The wells, and two others, are part of an intermediate cleanup of decades-old contamination directly beneath the facility.
The contamination also extends into the surrounding neighborhood. Lockheed, through its prior acquisition of Loral, owned the plant when the contamination was discovered in 2000 and thus is responsible for the cleanup.
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