[CPEO-MEF] Portsmouth Naval Shipyard cleanup milestone

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Shipyard officials looking for new contamination to conquer

By MICHAEL GOOT
Foster's Daily Democrat (NH/ME)
December 3, 2004

PORTSMOUTH — Now that a former landfill has been capped and turned into 
a park, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard officials are turning their attention 
to the next phase of environmental restoration.

The Restoration Advisory Board met Wednesday at the Best Western in 
Portsmouth to hear a presentation by JP Kumar of Tetra Tech NUS Inc. on 
the draft feasibility study for a project to clean up contaminated sites.

In September, the shipyard held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate 
the completion of the Jamaica Island Landfill remediation project. The 
cleanup began in 2002 and involved capping a 25-acre landfill used by 
the Navy from the 1940s to the 1970s to dump construction debris, dredge 
spoils and various materials.

Now, officials are focusing on two other areas.

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For the entire article, see
http://www4.fosters.com/December_2004/12.03.04/news/mn_k12.02.04b.asp

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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
http://www.cpeo.org



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