[CPEO-MEF] Former USAF range, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents Skeptical on Pollution Survey of Ex-US Firing Range

By Park Si-soo
Korea Times
January 17, 2008

Residents in Gyeonggi Province are challenging a recent pollution report 
on a former U.S. Air Force firing range there, saying its coverage was 
not extensive enough.

The reaction came after the Ministry of National Defense announced its 
results of a survey on pollution at the former range in Maehyangni, 
Hwaseong.

According to the report, the range and its vicinity were more 
contaminated than previously thought with heavy metals such as copper, 
lead and cadmium.

But the residents alleged that the survey was limited in coverage.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/01/113_17491.html

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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
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