2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:19:20 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Grafenwöhr Training Area (Germany), landfill
 
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.

...

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

--


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

  Prev by Date: [CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY: Wyle Labs (Norco, CA) oversight
Next by Date: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: EPA "might not" regulate perchlorate
  Prev by Thread: [CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY: Wyle Labs (Norco, CA) oversight
Next by Thread: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: EPA "might not" regulate perchlorate

CPEO Home
CPEO Lists
Author Index
Date Index
Thread Index