[CPEO-MEF] Navy to pay at two Rhode Island sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[These appear to be Natural Resource Damage claims.  - LS]

Navy to pay $1.4 million for pollution around Quonset

BY ARTHUR GREGG SULZBERGER 
Providence Journal (RI)
January 13, 2006


Two lawsuits filed against the Navy for pollution at two sites in North
Kingstown have been settled out of court for just over $1.4 million,
Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch announced yesterday. 

The Navy will pay $1.2 million for disposing hazardous substances at the
Allen Harbor landfill in Davisville and $215,000 for polluting nearby
Calf Pasture Point, said Lynch. The sites were owned by the Navy from
1939 to 2001, when the land was transferred to North Kingstown. 

"The state is finally being compensated for the groundwater, wetlands,
and shellfish resources that were irretrievably lost and damaged," said
DEM Director W. Michael Sullivan in a news release. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/westbay/content/projo_20060113_nkclean.72e6aa3d.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
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