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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Coast Guard Yard planning cleanup
Work due to begin this year on Curtis Bay Superfund site

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By Dan Lamothe
Baltimore Sun (MD)
July 8, 2007

It has been decades since Charles S. Key Jr. has seen the Coast Guard 
Yard at Curtis Bay, but he still shudders when thinking of his first job 
there.

* Key was assigned in 1976 to work with the "major renovation" crew, 
gutting and rebuilding ships on and near the docks. He did everything 
from sweeping to moving salvage, he said.

* "The environment itself was just horrible, and really, really nasty," 
said Key, 52. "I'd come back to my room after work and my uniform would 
just be covered with rust and grease and who knows what else."

Key, now a civilian living in Seattle, was stationed at the yard before 
present-day safeguards for the environment were put in place. Hazardous 
activities, such as sandblasting ship hulls, resulted in widespread 
contamination on the 113-acre site, nestled into the northeastern corner 
of Anne Arundel County near Curtis Creek and Arundel Cove.

Now, nearly 20 years after Coast Guard officials began investigating the 
environmental impact of discontinued shipyard tasks at the 108-year-old 
yard, the cleanup is set to begin this year.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.superfund08jul08,0,4709766.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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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