[CPEO-MEF] Gulfport Naval Construction Battalion Center (MS)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution protection plan
Navy to end base contamination

By MIKE KELLER
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
September 3, 2006

GULFPORT - At the eastern end of the Naval Construction Battalion 
Center, on a wide open area called landfill 5, a trainee learns how to 
operate a dragline crane.

Off to one side of the mound of dirt on which the operator practices 
lowering the crane boom, a pipe sticks out of the ground unassumingly.

The pipe is a sample well tapping an underground slurry of industrial 
chemical pollution deposited there during past base operations.

Within a year, a clay and asphalt cap will be placed over this entire 
area to prevent rain from seeping through the pollution and carrying it 
into South Mississippi's groundwater supply, according to Gordon Crane, 
the base's environmental program director. Base administrators will then 
have to find a new place to train Seabee crane operators.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/15430126.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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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