[CPEO-BIF] Kaiser shipyard debris, Vancouver, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Possible pollution closes part of Marine Park
Soil testing near Marine Park shows lead contamination

By Andrea Damewood
Columbian (WA)
April 4, 2012

Vancouver officials have closed a small patch of land in Marine Park  
to conduct further lead contamination testing.

The park contains buried World War II-era debris from the former  
Kaiser shipyard. During the 1940s, military and cargo ships were  
built there as part of the massive war effort. Some of the scrap  
materials used in the shipyard were buried in a landfill on the  
property.

In 2010, after much testing, the state Department of Ecology found  
the contamination -- old timbers, steel and buckets -- had not found  
its way into the groundwater, and ruled that the best move was to  
leave the debris there, undisturbed.

A parking lot constructed in the 1980s acts as a natural cap for much  
of the debris.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/apr/03/possible-pollution-closes- 
part-of-marine-park/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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