[CPEO-MEF] Yorktown (VA) cleanups

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Oozing into our lives
Serious pollution problems plague the Navy's Cheatham Annex in Yorktown. 
But cleanup has been minimal.

BY JOHN M.R. BULL AND PATRICK LYNCH
Daily Press (VA)
June 11, 2007

YORKTOWN -- The problems at the Navy's Cheatham Annex are so serious and 
extensive, federal environmental regulators in 2000 rated the threat to 
the human food chain at 96.06.

The worst possible score is 100.

Records show the Navy has extensively polluted all the York River 
tributaries on its base, mostly from industrial operations that spanned 
decades.

Tests show fish and crabs in creeks that feed into the York are 
contaminated with cancer-causing toxins, some of which accumulate up the 
food chain and concentrate in the top predators - humans.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-3624sy0jun11,0,2473782.story?coll=dp-news-local-final

See also

Cleanup moving slowly at base
The results of weapons production and random dumping still contaminate 
soil and water at Yorktown's Navy base.

BY PATRICK LYNCH AND JOHN M.R. BULL
Daily Press (VA)
June 11, 2007

NAVAL WEAPONS STATION YORKTOWN -- A cancer-causing industrial solvent 
has been found coursing in huge levels through the water table under 
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown.

One test showed the trichloroethylene, or TCE, at 18,000 parts per 
billion, or ppb. A follow-up test put it at 3,900 ppb.

The allowable limit in drinking water is 5 ppb.

By a quirk of geology, the water table drains into Indian Field Creek, 
which flows directly into the York River.

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-1421sy0jun11,0,5689640.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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