Military: ‘Poop Falling from the Ceiling’: Despite Improvements, Fort Gordon Families Detail Continued Housing Issues
This article features whistleblower client, Erin Greer, and was originally published here.
The Army and a private housing company have made some improvements in the year since the release of a scathing Senate investigation into unsafe living conditions at Fort Gordon, Georgia, but military families are still struggling to get mold and other hazards fixed, according to a follow-up report released Tuesday.
In connection with the latest report’s release, Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., also held a roundtable with former and current Fort Gordon residents where they described laboring to get Balfour Beatty Communities to respond to filthy living conditions, including rampant mold and leaking sewage.
“We can’t live in this house with poop falling from the ceiling,” Joy Viera, an Army spouse who had a sewage backflow in a bathroom that leaked into the kitchen a day after she and her family moved into a home at Fort Gordon, said at the roundtable.
Last year, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which at the time was led by Ossoff, released its bipartisan investigation that depicted Balfour Beatty ignoring residents’ concerns about mold, asbestos and other dangerous living conditions.
Balfour Beatty provides housing to 150,000 military residents in 26 states, but the report focused largely on Fort Gordon in Ossoff’s home state.
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