[CPEO-IRF] Groton (CT) sub base wastes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Land near sub base a dumping ground


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Cod Times
May 26, 2005

GROTON, Conn. - For decades, the land around the U.S. Navy's 575-acre
submarine base was a dumping ground for whatever it needed to dispose:
sulfuric acid, torpedo fuel, waste oil and incinerator ash.

Now the Pentagon wants to close its oldest sub base, leaving a huge
swath of land that contains dozens of acres of polluted soil and
groundwater, an Associated Press review of more than 1,000 pages of
military and state and federal environmental documents found.

Even some areas that have been cleaned could pose health risks to
construction workers and future residents if the base were to disappear,
the documents show.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/landnear26.htm

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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>
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