[CPEO-MEF] Puunene (HI) PCBs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Puunene building site needs PCB cleanup

Maui News
July 26, 2007


PUUNENE - The site of a former transformer building at the old Puunene 
airfield that previously was used by the military is contaminated with 
PCB, polychlorinated biphenyl, and will require extensive cleanup, 
including removal of contaminated soil.

In a submittal to the state Board of Land and Natural Resources, the 
land management staff said the Army Corps of Engineers determined that 
PCB contamination extended outside of the old building on one corner of 
a 293-acre parcel leased to the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.

The contaminated site, which includes a Word War II-era bunker, is not 
under cultivation by HC&S, a land management agent said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=32600

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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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