[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Yorktown Naval Weapons Station & Cheatham Annex (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy nears end of toxin clean-up

By Amanda Kerr
Virginia Gazette
November 28, 2009

After years of hauling away contaminated soil, trash and chemical waste, 
the Navy is winding up a 17-year environmental clean-up at dozens of 
sites inside Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and Cheatham Annex.

The Navy initially began investigating environmental contamination at 
Naval Weapons in the 1980s, but the clean-up didn't start until 1992 
when the base was designated a national priority by the EPA. Cheatham 
Annex was added to the list in 2001, although cleanup there has been 
ongoing since the 1990s.

Over time, 82 environmentally sensitive sites were identified at the 
Weapons Station and Cheatham Annex. Fully 43 sites have been 
investigated and cleaned at a cost to taxpayers of $15 million. The rest 
of the sites pose less risk and will be addressed during the next five 
years.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.vagazette.com/articles/2009/11/28/news/doc4b1064080a42b708276632.txt

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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>
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