[CPEO-MEF] Former Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, Charlestown, RI

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Plan offered to remove tainted soil


By Maria Armental
Providence Journal (RI)
September 27, 2007

CHARLESTOWN - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposes to remove 830 
cubic yards of contaminated soil, at a projected cost of $426,938, from 
a site within Charlestown’s former Naval Auxiliary Landing Field — today 
home to Ninigret Park.

The soil would be removed from an area about 200 feet east of Little 
Ninigret Pond, between greenway numbers 3 and 15 of the park’s disc golf 
course, from where five 25,000-gallon underground storage tanks 
reportedly used to store leaded, high octane aviation gasoline had been 
previously removed.

The area, known as site 8 and located some 1,500 feet from residential 
areas, was formerly used for flight-line fueling operations in the early 
1940s.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/news/content/SC_CHTWN_NINIGRET_CONTAMINATION2_09-27-07_FT79GFB.34bbc96.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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