| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | 18 Mar 2007 08:34:51 -0000 |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Pearl Harbor (HI) landfill |
Landfill closure costs rise to $17 million By Johnny Brannon The Honolulu Advertiser March 17, 2007The cost of permanently closing a long-defunct city landfill in Waipahu has more than doubled while officials wrangle over how to deal with any lingering environmental problems. About $7 million had been set aside for the work, but it now is expected to cost an additional $10 million, according to city environmental services director Eric Takamura. The 49-acre site, on Waipi'o Peninsula beside Pearl Harbor's West Loch, was used as a dump from the early 1960s until late 1991. ...Part of the site is leased from the Navy, which has yet to approve the city's plan to permanently cap the landfill and monitor conditions, officials told a City Council panel Thursday. ... For the entire article, see http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070317/NEWS04/703170339/1001/NEWS -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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