EXPOSURE: Surviving Historical Ft. McClellan
We will see that government reports clearly show that tactical herbicides, their components, or their commercial equivalents, as well as other metals, chemicals, and solvents, were utilized, deployed, decontaminated, buried, and/or rediscovered across Fort McClellan. These include 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T, silvex, picloram, Tordon, TCDD - 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, chlordane, malathion, lindane, Dursban, mirex, arsenic, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), beryllium, thallium, TCE – benzene, perchlorate, asbestos, radon, and lead-based paint.
Private industry, chiefly Monsanto (well before the divestiture and creation of Solutia, Inc. on September 1, 1997 to continue Monsanto Company's chemical business) played a role in the contamination as well per EPA documents. To a degree, many contaminants likely continue to exist in site media (soil, sediment, water, air) associated with Fort McClellan.
