[CPEO-IRF] Groton Sub Base (CT) environmental investigation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP to start investigation of pollution at sub base

By RAY HACKETT
Norwich Bulletin
May 25, 2005

NORWICH-- A team from the state Department of Environmental Protection 
will begin investigating the environmental conditions at the Groton 
Submarine Base this week.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Tuesday the U.S. Navy has agreed to her request 
to allow state inspectors to conduct a thorough review of the base to 
determine the level of contamination and an accurate estimate of the 
cleanup cost.

"I have asked DEP Commissioner Gina McCarthy to form a special team to 
go over every square inch of the base and make a thorough record of all 
the contamination, waste storage locations and other such sites," Rell 
said in announcing the agreement.

Twenty-nine individual locations on the base require environmental 
cleanup, including 15 that were identified by the federal Environmental 
Protection Agency as Superfund sites.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS01/505250303/1002

--
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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