From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Sat, 3 May 2008 13:10:14 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, RADIATION: "Army Shipping Contaminated Kuwait Sand to Idaho Landfill" |
Army Shipping Contaminated Kuwait Sand to Idaho Landfill By Jill Kuraitis New West (MT) April 30,2008The U.S. Army is shipping 6,700 tons of contaminated sand to Idaho from Kuwait. It will arrive at American Ecology in Grandview, Idaho, sometime in May. Grandview, population 470, is 42 miles south of Boise in Owyhee County.The sand is from Camp Doha in Kuwait, a former Army warehouse complex used by Army Forces Central Command. The sand absorbed depleted uranium when some spent ammunition was caught in a fire (addition May 1: during the first Gulf War.) It's also contaminated with hazardous levels of lead, according to the two military guys who told me the story, whose branch and names won't be used for obvious reasons. However, it's no secret, since the story had already been written by Erik Olson in the Longview, Washington Daily News. ... For the entire article, see http://www.newwest.net/city/article/army_shipping_contaminated_kuwait_sand_to_idaho_landfill1/C108/L108/ -- 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@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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