[CPEO-MEF] Gulfport (MS) dioxin found

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dioxin-tainted soil found

By MIKE KELLER
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
August 9, 2006

GULFPORT - A new area contaminated with dioxin has been found just west 
of Canal Road by officials involved in the Seabee Base Agent Orange cleanup.

The area, running parallel to Canal Road, became contaminated after 
workers dredged the canal of contaminated soil that came off the Seabee 
base and dumped it in the undeveloped woods next to the waterway, said 
Bob Fisher, a Tetra Tech employee who is in charge of sampling for the 
cleanup project.

The dredging was routine maintenance done without knowledge of the 
contaminated soil.

"This area is zoned residential and these piles need to be excavated and 
removed," Fisher said. "It needs to happen."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/15230466.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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