[CPEO-MEF] Agana Swamp (Guam) PCBs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

What's being done about PCB testing in fish in the Agana Swamp?

by Ronna Sweeney
KUAM News (GU)
January 20, 2008

For years a fish and eel consumption advisory has been in effect at the 
Agana Swamp due to PCB contamination caused by the old Agana Power 
Plant. And while decreased levels of PCBs have been found in areas 
formerly cleaned up by the U.S. Navy, a new study shows that levels of 
PCBs found in fish located elsewhere in the area has actually gone up.

Nearly 60 years ago, the old plant was built and operated by the Navy, 
and before 1989 the plant used polychlorinated biphenyls as cooling oils 
for its electrical transformers and switching gears. Once the power 
plant was handed over to the Government of Guam, PCBs, dioxins, and 
other toxic contaminants were found in the soils in and around the old 
Agana Power Plant. And in 2000 the Navy completed a removal action in 
which 3,700 cubic yards of soil containing the hazardous materials from 
and around the plant was removed and disposed of. And the old plant was 
identified not to be a source of PCBs to the Agana Swamp and river any 
longer.


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For the entire story, see
http://www.kuam.com/news/26139.aspx

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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
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