From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 10 Jul 2007 23:35:43 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Radiation investigation at Camp Lejeune (NC) |
EPA investigating waste at Camp Lejeune By ESTES THOMPSON Associated Press San Jose Mercury News (CA) July 10, 2007RALEIGH, N.C. - The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether cancer-causing radioactive material was buried in the 1980s near a rifle range at Camp Lejeune, the Marine Corps' primary base on the Atlantic Ocean. A recently recovered Navy document dated 1981 said the material included 160 pounds of soil and two animal carcasses laced with strontium-90, an isotope that causes cancer and leukemia. "We are looking into this information to determine if we need to sample and where," said Dawn Harris-Young, a spokeswoman for the EPA's regional office in Atlanta. "It's really early." ... For the entire article, see http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_6341724 -- 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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