[CPEO-MEF] Jamaica Island Landfill, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hazardous waste?

By Rachel M. Collins
Portsmouth Herald News (NH)
November 19, 2006

Those at the shoreline admired the great blue heron as it took to the 
air from the marsh grass at the edge of the Piscataqua River in Kittery, 
Maine.

It has taken years for the vegetation to take hold in the constructed 
salt marsh that once was a landfill here, but today the herons are a 
welcome sight for the federal, state and local representatives on the 
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard's Restoration Advisory Board.

For 11 years, they have been advising shipyard officials who have spent 
a total of $48.4 million on environmental studies and remedial work 
cleaning up hazardous materials and waste left behind decades ago on the 
installations's 276 acres.

So today, they welcome any opportunity to showcase what is, by accounts, 
a "success story."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/11192006/nhnews-19sun-shipyard.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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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