European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. December 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 americans Ujj warned on water from ult and wire report Augsburg Germany while no caverns or military housing areas Are affected by contaminated water Mains in the City americans living on the econ omy should take the same precautions with their tap water As germans a Community spokesman said Friday. There is no area of the dry where americans do not live said Hermann Hal spokesman for the Augsburg Mili tary Community. Haf said there were absolutely no re ports of americans becoming ill from drinking the water which contains Wylola poisonous chemical used in insulation. Four people were treated thursday i hospitals for nausea and vomiting and Many others went to family doctors for severe headaches after they drank water containing the chemical officials City spokesman said All but 1,500 of the original 8,000 residents affected bythe incident were Able to drink their tap water again by Friday afternoon the associated press reported. The communities of no Bergheim an the Schaa Weid Siedling were still affected by the contaminated water water in the communities of Berg Helm and Goggin in was Back to nor Mal Friday said Sigfried Otto an Augsburg police trucks were delivering fresh water to affected areas of Augsburg Friday Haf angst org residents thursday full containers with water at a Supply Point to up by the City s lire brigade. first warnings of contamination came late wednesday when people began phoning authorities to complain their water smelled like turpentine. United press International reported. Laboratory Icsis found 3.6 milligrams of Ity lol in each liter of water 10,000times the permissible level of contamination. The contamination was noticed Al most immediately after the City waterworks put into service a new 700 meter water line connecting two residential divisions. Werner Pusinelli director of the water works said a Cyl of coated pipe or pipe earmarked for waste water lines had apparently been substituted for non coated ones for drinking water it was not Clear who was to blame he said. Safe again signing Long term housing leases Kalser Slauter Bureau Ramstein a Germany it s the Little things that count for residents in the first completed units of a Safe wide leased housing program. I have my own trash can Sonja Gray said. I love after a 13-year break Safe is get Ling Back in the business of signing Long term leases for housing built and owned by entrepreneurs. The army in Europe also has an Active leased housing program with 12,661 units As of september an army housing official said. Officials at Ramstein a took posses Sion in october of the first 11 Homes of a6h-unil project in nearby Lan Stuhl. Construction will begin soon on about 2,200 units in developments from eng land to Sicily said capt. Larry Parker of the Safe directorate of housing and Community services. We be done some teased housing in the past but it was a haphazard thing a few units Here a few units there Parker said. This is the first aggressive Safe wide program where we looked at the need and developed a the program started three years ago As housing officials searched for a Way of easing the housing crunch without using hard to come by military funds for construction. Under the leased housing pro Gram the air Force asks developers to submit bids on housing projects. The builders who win the bids must buy their own land build the projects to airfare specifications and manage the units. The air Force agrees to sign a 10-year lease chief my sir tit we h. Cray Itow we a id Fata itt Al is pm of Lynda w. A Pitt if All building requirements Are builders can sell individual leased units As investments but the key10 the program Parker said is that the air Force never incurs the Cost of build ing or operating the projects. While projects will vary in appearance from base to base tic units in lands Uhl have three or four bedrooms. The four bedroom units encompass 130 Square meters and have 2vi bathrooms. The three bedroom units cover 110 Square meters and have in basement in each unit has a storage room Hobby room and a room for Washer and dryer. Each unit has a garage and an additional parking space with some units having attached garages. I would buy one of these said chief master sol. Tommie Gray Sonja s Hus band. For privacy you can t beat it there s no stairwell. And i like being close to my own townhouse come four to a build ing and cover an a shaped tract of Landin Lilue travelled area of Lan Stuhl individual rooms Are smaller than the Mili tary homing the Grays were familiar with but that Waint a s not the biggest but it s definitely adequate Tommie Gray said. You Jetmore amenities for the maj new As the units become available across Europe they will be opened to various ranks depending on area needs Parker said. Residents of the Lan Stuhl units Range from a senior airman to chief Mas Ter sergeant the program will include 900 units i Germany with 500 at Ramstein and 200 each at we Bruecken a a. The United kingdom will have 300 units at both Raf Alcoa Bury and Raf Ben Waters and 50 at Raf upper Heyford. A 200-unit project will be built in Belgium. A 460-unit project is being built a Comiso Sicily and the first units Are expected to be completed in one year oort auction project to build if 0 unit in san Vita Dei Karmin in Italy was tet to begin this month
