[CPEO-MEF] Kaneohe (HI) military housing contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dirty Cover Up?

Safety Expert Says Housing Project on Kaneohe Marine Corps Base 
Contaminated with Three Deadly Banned Toxins at Dangerously High Levels; 
Navy Claims Levels of Chlordane, Heptachlor and Heptachlor-Epoxide are 
Only Slightly Elevated and Navy is Exempt from Following State Safety 
Guidelines; EPA and Department of Health Launch Joint Investigation

By Malia Zimmerman
Hawaii Reporter
May 2, 2006

Walter Chun has spent much of his life watching out for the safety of 
others. Once an investigator for the federal government, he headed the 
U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration in the Pacific, 
traveling throughout the region to ensure conditions in businesses in 
American Samoa, Saipan, Hawaii and surrounding areas were safe for 
workers. For 37 years, he worked in risk management, occupational safety 
and health, environmental protection and a wide range of risk assessment 
projects in a variety of government jobs including the Safety Director 
at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.

Now employed in management by Metcalf Construction, a small local 
private contracting company, Chun has uncovered a potential 
environmental nightmare while on a job at Kaneohe Marine Corps Base that 
has led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of 
Health to launch a joint investigation into the U.S. Navy’s management 
of the project.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?ff7ac34b-6e8e-4c8a-9490-7639f3c23418

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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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