[CPEO-MEF] Camp Peary (VA) - the CIA "farm"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy to haul dirty soil from The Farm
The contaminated dirt in a World War II-era dump will be excavated and 
sent out of Camp Peary, the CIA training base in York County.

BY PATRICK LYNCH
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
February 16 2007

YORK -- The Navy plans to haul away 13,000 dump-truck loads of polluted 
soil from an old landfill on the secretive Camp Peary.

The $5.5 million cleanup project is expected to take two years to complete.

It is part of a base-wide effort to environmentally repair more than a 
dozen sites that are polluted to some degree.

Neighbors are in no danger from any contamination found so far at the 
base, now known as The Farm and used by the CIA, said Navy and state 
environmental officials during a sparsely attended forum Thursday night 
to explain the impending work to the public.

Technically known as the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity, 
the York County base was a training ground for Navy Seabees during World 
War II and housed up to 40,000 trainees at a time.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-57814sy0feb16,0,5118489.story?coll=dp-news-local-final

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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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