[CPEO-MEF] Cleveland FUDS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

>From the Cleveland Scene, November 22, 2001

Is It Safe? 
Federal officials say an old mustard gas pit poses no health risks.
Others aren't so sure.

By Martin Kuz

A worker in the Allied Carpet Inc. warehouse grabs his right elbow in
mock pain. "Ohh," he moans. "Mustard gas." 

...

Not long ago, officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers swept
through the building, which in 1918 housed a starkly different
enterprise. Known then as the Cleveland Plant, it served as a World War
I production facility for the chemical agent mustard. 
...

The agency bears the task of surveying and potentially cleaning up more
than 9,000 Formerly Used Defense Sites, or FUDS, across the country,
including 90 in Ohio. The testing gauges whether chemical weapons,
munitions, and other war-related detritus dumped at the retired
facilities pose a health hazard. 

Hampered by its own blunders and incomplete disposal records -- or no
records at all -- the Corps on occasion has made a mess of FUDS and
similar cleanup projects:

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2001-11-22/news.html/1/index.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View 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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