[CPEO-MEF] Electric Boat, Groton, CT

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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