[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Atlantic Wood Industries and the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Though military liability appears confined to World War II, it appears 
that this site is not being addressed through the Formerly Used Defense 
Sites program. Instead, this report hints that the Navy is contributing 
as a responsible party. - LS]

EPA's plan would wall off toxins along Elizabeth River


By Scott Harper
The Virginian-Pilot
November 2, 2008

PORTSMOUTH

The Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River is infamous for the many 
toxic-waste sites that line its blighted shores, but none is more 
notorious than Atlantic Wood Industries.

There, on a narrow waterfront lot in Portsmouth that juts into the river 
like a long tongue, workers for more than 60 years coated wood pilings 
and poles with tar like creosote and other chemical preservatives.

...

Since 1990, the 48-acre property has been on the national list of 
Superfund cleanup sites. So, too, is its neighbor, the Norfolk Naval 
Shipyard, which contributed to the mess by using part of the site for 
storage and dumping during World War II.

...

For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/epas-plan-would-wall-toxins-along-elizabeth-river

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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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