[CPEO-MEF] Gulport (MS) dioxin and Katrina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Katrina moved dioxin-tainted soil near base
Drinking water may be threatened

By MIKE KELLER
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
April 13, 2006

GULFPORT - Hurricane Katrina pushed a small amount of 
dioxin-contaminated soil into areas around Gulfport's Seabee base, a 
company representative monitoring the site said at a base advisory board 
meeting this week.

"We will work to move the sediment back to a containment area," said Bob 
Fisher, a hydrologist with Tetra Tech, the company contracted by the 
U.S. Navy to analyze environmental contamination of the cancer-causing 
chemical. "We have already taken action on the base and we are getting 
ready to do it off-base. The good news is that while it did move in some 
locations, it did not move more than 100 feet."

The dioxin came from 850,000 gallons of Agent Orange that had been 
stored on the base between 1968 and 1976. Agent Orange was the military 
code name for one of a powerful group of herbicides used during the 
Vietnam War.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/special_packages/renewal/long_beach/14330881.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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