[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Grafenwöhr Training Area (Germany), landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Wells' risk from landfill puts U.S., activists at odds


By Seth Robson
Stars and Stripes European edition
May 6, 2008

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany - The large grassy hill beside the tank trail at 
Grafenwöhr Training Area might look like an old landfill. The sign as 
motorists pass the entrance might even say "landfill." But, according to 
Army officials, the landfill is no longer a landfill.

"It is used for the segregation and shredding of waste prior to the 
delivery to a German waste incineration plant," U.S. Army Garrison 
Grafenwöhr spokeswoman Susanne Bartsch wrote in an e-mail.

The site, Bartsch said, is now used for the collection and storage of 
larger amounts of hazardous waste that are later picked up by a licensed 
contractor and disposed of.

It poses no risk to the environment, she said.

But members of the environmental activist group Zusammenschluss 
umweltbewusster Bürger, or ZUB, disagree. They say the old landfill is 
poisoning the groundwater, and they'd like to see the trash removed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54575

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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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