Nicole Jones read the poster’s laundry list of health effects from drinking water contaminated by chemicals found in firefighting foam: high cholesterol, changes in liver enzymes, preeclampsia in pregnant women, low infant birth weight and cancer. “Are you reading all this?” she asked her husband. Jones and her husband read the poster Tuesday at a public meeting organized by the Navy to inform .
The Norfolk Navy Shipyard is inviting the public to attend an open house about its proposal to sample the drinking water wells in the area west of St. Juliens Creek Annex.