[CPEO-MEF] Curtis Bay (MD) Coast Guard yard

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Area at Curtis Bay to be left
No need for cleanup under dry docks, Coast Guard says

By Dan Lamothe
Baltimore Sun (MD)
June 27, 2007

The Coast Guard plans to take no action to clean up the first of seven 
contaminated sites at its yard on Curtis Bay.

A proposed new remediation plan - the first completed for the Superfund 
site - found that though cyanide, lead and other dangerous substances 
remain in the sediment under dry docks on the property, the level are 
too low to warrant concern.

"It's an acceptable risk," Robert DeMarco, environmental engineer for 
the yard, said yesterday. "The numbers are decided by the [Environmental 
Protection Agency], and they're very conservative numbers."

DeMarco said he did not have test results yesterday, but the action plan 
for the dry docks will be discussed at a public meeting tomorrow night 
at the Coast Guard yard. The action plan is subject to change based on 
concerns raised by the public, officials said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.superfund27jun27,0,5823882.story?coll=bal-local-arundel

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