[CPEO-MEF] Cleaning Gulfport's (MS) Agent Orange after Katrina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Seabee Center restarts cleanup of Agent Orange

By MIKE KELLER
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
January 25, 2006

GULFPORT - Work to clean up the poisonous remains of Agent Orange has 
begun again around Gulfport's Naval Construction Battalion Center after 
operations were shut down for several months because of Hurricane Katrina.

Gordon Crane, the center's environmental manager, said the project had 
been shut down for four months and that Katrina's surge did make contact 
with contaminated areas north of 28th Street, the northern border of the 
center.

"Out in the swampy area, we did have some piles of excavated soil. There 
was some water there," he said. "Something could have moved."

He said that both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Navy 
took samples to see if pollution had spread as a result of Katrina. They 
expect results back within the next two weeks.

The water infiltrated "into areas that had the highest level of 
contamination," but that movement of the dangerous soil should have been 
contained by sediment traps placed around the piles.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/13705162.htm

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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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