Tucson’s mayor and City Council are backing a resolution that ramps up community support for ongoing trauma and medical issues caused by water contamination from a jet engine cleaner containing trichloroethylene, or TCE.
TCE seeped into groundwater used by southside Tucson communities years ago, after being used at military installations nearby. Contamination was so severe that the area was eventually declared a Superfund site by the EPA, which makes polluters responsible for cleanup.
During a Sept. 9 Tucson mayor and council meeting, Councilmember Lane Santa Cruz said that trauma lives on in Southsiders like her, even today…