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The much-anticipated report on the first phase of the Naples, Italy, health assessment was posted Monday on the Navy’s Naples command Web site.

Navy officials began the study more than a year ago, prompted by concerns over decades of illegal trash burning, dumping of toxic waste, garbage collection strikes and numerous reports of rising cancer rates and respiratory problems.

Released in two volumes, the report runs almost 2,700 pages, and includes the raw data on all Phase I testing.

The Navy is hosting two open house events Wednesday and Thursday that will include information booths staffed by agencies involved in the study. They will include representatives from the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, which is heading up the study, Tetra Tech, the firm hired to carry out the sampling, and environmental medical staff members from the base hospital.

Wednesday’s event runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Capodichino in the old dining facility (Ciao Hall). Thursday’s open house takes place in two sessions at the community center on the support site — from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The full report and a four-page executive summary of the health assessment can be viewed at https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Naples/Programs/HealthAwareness/NPHEPhaseIReport/FullReport/index.htm.

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