[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, COAST GUARD: Kodiak PCE

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

USCG battles hazards in place since Base was built

By RALPH GIBBS
Kodiak Mirror (AK)
May 30, 2008

The Coast Guard Base in Kodiak is under a chemical attack. The attack 
comes not from terrorists or the Russians, but from the past. On 
Thursday, Base officials invited media representatives to tour the 
battlefield and discuss the Coast Guard plan to fight the war.

The precursors to the chemical problem started about the time the Base 
was built.

"As I understand it, workers that were running the dry cleaners were 
disposing of (chemicals) in years past by dumping them in the ground," 
Base commander Capt. Mark Carmel said. "Those practices were stopped … 
in the late 1980s at the latest."

Now the Base is dealing with the aftermath.

On April 18, residents of the open-bay transient living quarters were 
evacuated after officials detected higher-than-normal traces of the 
chemical toxin tetrachloroethylene (TCE) in a mechanical room in the 
basement.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=6267

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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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