Naples assessment delayed until March

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Naples assessment delayed until March
By Lisa M. Novak, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, February 10, 2009

NAPLES, Italy — Completion of a Naples health assessment report has been delayed until late March, Navy officials said this week.

Originally, release of the report — on Phase I of the Navy’s assessment to determine if living in Naples is detrimental to one’s health — was planned for November, then pushed to January.

But the completion of the report was delayed because some of the results led to additional testing of homes in the region, officials said.

When the study began in February 2008, the Navy took water and soil samples of 166 off-base homes.

Results from those findings prompted the Navy to expand the testing to all homes under consideration for leasing, which added some 230 homes to the study.


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