[CPEO-MEF] Andersen AFB (Guam)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Progress seen on Urunao cleanup project

by Ronna Sweeney
KUAM News
March 1, 2007

The $13 million cleanup project beginning at Urunao is drawing a lot of 
attention. Around 1945, the U.S. Air Force had used the cliffside as a 
dumping ground for all sorts of non-biodegradable materials. Now, the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Guam EPA and Andersen Air 
Force Base are moving to right the wrongdoings of the past.

AAFB has been registered as a national priority listed site. And though 
AAFB remedial project manager for Guam EPA Mike Cruz says the base is 
not entirely contaminated, it does hold potential ecological, public 
health and chemical risks. "There has been public concern that Agent 
Orange may have been applied at AAFB, but to the best of our knowledge 
we still have yet to determine that that is the truth," he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kuam.com/news/21162.aspx

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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
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