[CPEO-MEF] Oil underneath the Defense Personnel Supply Center (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Slick City
South Philadelphia residents see no black gold in massive underground
oil spill.

Tamar Charry
Philadelphia City Paper (PA)
September 28?October 5, 1995

There's oil underneath the Defense Personnel Supply Center (DPSC).

But it's not the stuff of Jed Clampett's daydreams. It's more like a
million-gallon underground version of the Exxon-Valdez nightmare.

And as the government tries to shut down the 83-year-old DPSC, South
Philly residents are fighting to find out who is responsible for the
diesel and gasoline slick, which covers more than 2 million square feet.

South Philly residents say they are furious that no one told them the
extent of the problem until last Thursday, when they were updated about
the hazardous waste cleanup at the DPSC, in a building often referred to
as the Quartermaster Depot.The cleanup is being undertaken in
preparation for the facility's relocation, scheduled for no later than
July of 1999.

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For the entire article, see
http://citypaper.net/articles/092895/article012.shtml


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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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