[CPEO-MEF] Camp Pendleton contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic woes fester at Camp Pendleton

Cleanup efforts praised; years of more work ahead

By Rick Rogers
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
November 22, 2005


Contaminated drinking water is the latest environmental problem plaguing 
Camp Pendleton, which has so many toxic waste sites that it was declared 
a public health threat more than a decade ago.

The 125,000-acre base - the last large chunk of mostly undeveloped land 
between Los Angeles and the U.S.-Mexico border - is an environmental 
contradiction. Bald eagles soar over the site and steelhead trout swim 
in its waters. But the area is also home to plumes of solvents, pockets 
of pesticides and trenches of petrochemicals.

Some of the trouble is decades old, to times before anyone realized the 
dangers of burying, burning or dumping hazardous materials. Others are 
more recent, such as Camp Pendleton's difficulties with dangerously high 
levels of lead and copper in its tap water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20051122-9999-1n22pollute.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
http://www.cpeo.org

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