From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 26 Nov 2007 15:42:35 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Chamberlain Manufacturing, Waterloo, Iowa |
City, EPA take aim at contaminated Chamberlain Manufacturing site By TIM JAMISON Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (IA) November 25, 2007 WATERLOO --- Gary Wilcox wasn't entirely prepared for what he found when returning to tour the Chamberlain Manufacturing site. The former manager of safety and environmental engineering --- who worked for the company from 1969 to 1991 --- saw collapsed roofs, trees sprouting through concrete alleys and twisted and snarled piping where scrap metal collectors ripped generators or air-conditioning units from their foundations. Vandals and those stealing from the site left their mark, including holes in security fencing around the orphaned industrial complex that includes 22 buildings along East Fourth Street next to Gates Park. ... The state of affairs is a far cry from Chamberlain's heyday during the Vietnam War when more than 800 workers earned a living manufacturing bombs for the United States' war machine. ... For the entire article, see http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/11/25/news/metro/8f232384816d55618625739e0018f256.txt -- 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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