[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Bellows Air Force Station (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Removal of Bellows landfill kicks off

Industrial waste, glass, other hazards buried at site inside beach park

By Eloise Aguiar
Honolulu Advertiser (HI)
September 6, 2008


WAIMANALO - A landfill that has been decaying for 60 years on the shores 
of Bellows Air Force Station will be removed thanks to a joint military 
and community effort.

The Air Force will excavate approximately 5,000 cubic yards of waste and 
debris and in its place restore pristine beach that both the military 
and the community can use.

The one-acre parcel has been off-limits for four years while the 
military determined what to do there. It was slated for no-action, but 
the local community with the support of its congresswoman changed that.

People were appalled that scrap metal, glass, industrial waste and cans 
were buried two feet under the surface next to a sandy beach and the 
ocean, U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono said at a blessing ceremony to kick off 
the project yesterday.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080906/NEWS01/809060320/1001/LOCALNEWSFRONT

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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