[CPEO-MEF] Yongsan Garrison (Seoul, South Korea) oil leak

[lsiegel@np.craigslist.org]

U.S. base oil spill still polluting ground water
Dangerous levels of benzene, other substances detected


The Hankyoreh (South Korea)
November 29, 2006

Oil that in 2001 leaked from underground oil tanks at Yongsan Garrison, a
U.S. military base in Seoul, is still polluting nearby underground water.

Seoul Metropolitan Council Member Lee Su-jeong of the opposition
Democratic Labor Party (DLP) said on November 27 that at six places near
Noksapyeong subway station, 14.8 to 1,988 times the standard amount of
benzene (0.015 ppm) was detected.

The site containing 1,988 times standard amount of benzene, a
cancer-causing substance, is where underground water flows toward the Han
River water system.

...

For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/174752.html

-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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