[CPEO-MEF] Jackson Park Housing (WA) munitions

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jackson Park Studies Stalled
The Navy has yet to develop an acceptable work plan for cleanup options.

By Christopher Dunagan
Kitsap Sun (WA)
July 22, 2006

Bremerton

Cleanup of buried munitions at the Navy’s Jackson Park Housing Complex 
has been delayed by a disagreement over how the investigation should 
proceed, officials say.

Last December, the Navy agreed to pay a $40,000 penalty for failing to 
submit a work plan for the investigation of an unknown quantity of 
buried munitions in the housing area. Most of the buried ordnance was 
left over from World War II and even World War I, when the site was 
operated as an ammunition depot.

The Environmental Protection Agency, which levied the penalty, is still 
in negotiations with the Navy for a final plan of action, according to 
Dave Croxton, EPA’s site cleanup manager.

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For the entire article, see
http://www1.kitsapsun.com/bsun/local/article/0,2403,BSUN_19088_4863155,00.html

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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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