[CPEO-MEF] Point Loma (CA) fuel leak

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Naval Base Point Loma Tackles Fuel Cleanup, Residents' Concerns


By JO3 S. C. Irwin - Fleet Public Affairs Center, Pacific
Navy Compass
March 31, 2006

POINT LOMA, Calif.- Navy officials participated in a town hall meeting 
March 20 to inform Point Loma residents how the Navy plans to cleanup 
500,000 to 1.5 million gallons of fuel that seeped into the ground 
beneath a fuel depot.

Since 1999, a significant amount of JP-5 and marine diesel fuel has 
seeped from three steel tanks at Naval Base Point Loma (NBPL), forming a 
plume on top of the water table nearly 50 feet underground.

The tanks are located aboveground in an area of the base designated as 
the Defense Fuel Support Point, which provides Defense Energy Support 
Center fuel to all local and surrounding military bases via pipeline 
networks, tankers and vessels.

The fuel leaked through small holes that developed in the bottom of 
tanks that are over 70 years old.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.navycompass.com/news/newsview.asp?c=182714

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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