[CPEO-MEF] "Hawaii chemical weapons dump site to be surveyed"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hawaii chemical weapons dump site to be surveyed

Honolulu Advertiser
November 14, 2007

The University of Hawai'i at Manoa has been awarded $1.975 million to 
support the U.S. Department of Defense's efforts to assess the potential 
risk to human health and the environment of a chemical warfare material 
disposal site about 5 miles south of the entrance to Pearl Harbor in 
waters more than 1,000 feet deep.

A full array of state-of-the-art technologies owned and operated by UH 
Manoa's School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology will be employed to 
assess the location and condition of the disposal site. The program will 
map the seafloor with high-resolution sonar followed by direct 
observation of any chemical warfare material found using either remotely 
operated underwater vehicles or three-man research submarines deployed 
using UH research vessels.

Researchers will collect water, seafloor sediment and biological samples 
in the vicinity of the disposal sites and at control sites up-current 
and away from the munitions disposal site. Chemical analysis for 
munitions constituents, including military chemical agents, will be 
performed on sediment, water, and biological samples.


...

For the entire article, see
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Nov/14/br/br4109265783.html

-- 


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