[CPEO-IRF] Brunswick (ME) surprises

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Discoveries hamper BNAS cleanup

Beth Brogan
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
December 6, 2007

BRUNSWICK - Cleanup of a Superfund site at Brunswick Naval Air Base was
halted last week after excavators discovered what initially appeared to
be "bombs or torpedoes." Upon closer inspection, the items were deemed
to be an "inert, non-explosive practice weapon," according to a Navy
spokesman.

Excavation of the site has since continued. However, within a week prior
to the discovery, the Navy received a letter from a former base employee
alerting officials to the routine practice, during the 1970s and likely
years prior, of disposing of vacuum tubes — some containing radioactive
material —' in a landfill on the northern part of the base.


For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/32AC94143E356F5E052573A90057BBB9?Opendocument
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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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