[CPEO-MEF] Indian Island Naval Magazine (WA) to be de-listed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy's island cleanup gets OK 

The Associated Press
Seattle Times
July 17, 2005

INDIAN ISLAND, Jefferson County ? After more than 10 years on the
federal Superfund list of the nation's most contaminated sites, Naval
Magazine Indian Island has received a clean bill of health.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced the removal of the island
near Port Townsend from the list of tainted sites, meaning the EPA and
the state Department of Ecology consider the site of no significant
threat to public health or the environment.

It is the first complete Navy installation to be removed from the
Superfund list.

...

For the entire article, see
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002386040_indianisland17.html

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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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