From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 13 Nov 2007 17:57:02 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Electric Boat, Groton, CT |
EB Monitors, Addresses Contamination Left From Earlier Era Of Sub Construction By Judy Benson The Day (CT) November 12, 2007 Groton -- Electric Boat's property on Eastern Point Road and Thames Street is a modern-day shipyard contending with the residues of almost 100 years of heavy industrial use. Hundreds of gallons of old diesel oil, high levels of heavy metals and PCBs left from long-gone transformers have been found in the riverbank and in soil used as fill at the shipyard. Some of the contamination has been detected in groundwater. Paints, solvents, petroleum products, metals and other materials used to make submarines were buried or dumped, in keeping with the haphazard environmental practices common in those days. They are decades-old leftovers from the time before modern environmental regulations came into being in the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1923, when EB began shipbuilding along the Thames River, "everyone's knowledge and awareness of environmental impacts and practices, not to mention applicable laws and regulations, have changed dramatically," the company said in a written statement provided in response to questions from The Day. ... For the entire article, see http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=995df910-fa07-4dac-8fc3-eb4d106e3ca3 -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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