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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 21 Nov 2006 05:58:52 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Former Quonset Point (RI) naval base
 
Pollution costs the Navy $1.4 million


Opinion by Michael A. Rice Providence Journal (RI) November 20, 2006

IN THE LAST couple of weeks, one year after a final legal settlement, $1.4 million in federal funds flowed into the coffers of the State of Rhode Island. In the little-publicized case, the state brought suit against the U.S. Navy for several decades of dumping of toxic wastes into a landfill near Allen Harbor in the former naval base at Quonset Point.

The settlement was a result of two years of legal wrangling in the Federal District Court in Providence, under the provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as the Superfund Act of 1980. The case was led by the state's environmental advocate, attorney Tricia Jedele of the attorney general's office, and Gerald McAvoy, the former chief of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Office of Legal Services.

At the heart of the case was a claim that the Navy was responsible for the contamination of groundwater resources at the Allen Harbor landfill, making those waters unfit for future drinking and other uses. The state further alleged that the Navy's activities contaminated the shellfish in Allen Harbor and vicinity, leading to its permanent closure to shellfishing in 1984.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/projo_20061120_ctrice.31ed16f.html

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Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org


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