[CPEO-MEF] Camp Peary (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Toxins found at Camp Peary

By Amanda Kerr
The Virginia Gazette
January 2, 2008

YORK - Sixty years after Navy Seabees inadvertently created a toxic dump 
by burning debris at Camp Peary, the site is getting a good scrubbing.

A $6.7 million environmental restoration enters Phase 2 this month at 
the top secret CIA training base. Residents of Queens Lake can see a 
clearing of trees along Queens Creek where the work is proceeding.

Soil at the site has tested positive for thallium, arsenic and lead, all 
of which can be deadly (see box). There’s no word of how concentrated or 
pervasive the toxins are. A memo from an environmental consultant 
company overseeing the cleanup refers to them only as “contaminants of 
concern.”

Camp Peary and the Navy have joined forces to rid the toxins at the 
landfill of Porto Bello, the community that was displaced for World War 
II. Although the toxic dumping took place in the 1940s, the site was not 
identified as possibly contaminated until 1985. Testing eventually 
confirmed metal contamination in the soil and sediment.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.vagazette.com/news/local/va-news1_010208jan02,0,2786814.story

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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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