[CPEO-MEF] WATER: Camp Lejeune (NC) benzene response

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Michael Baker Corp. responds to water contamination report

By: Michael Pound
Beaver County Times (PA)
March 1, 2010

MOON TWP. - An incorrect historical summary led to a dramatic 
understatement of the levels of toxins in the water supply at a U.S. 
Marine Corps base in North Carolina when officials from the 
environmental arm of Michael Baker Corp. released reports about the 
contamination in the early 1990s, the company has said.

In February, the Associated Press conducted an analysis of the 
contamination of the water system at Camp Lejeune and the steps the U.S. 
Department of Defense took to address the longstanding problem. Among 
the AP’s findings was that Baker Environmental issued at least one 
report that said the level of benzene, a known carcinogen, in the water 
was 38 parts per billion instead of 380 parts per billion; in another 
report, the AP said, Baker officials omitted references to benzene in 
the post’s water.

The Defense Department hired Baker Environmental in 1991 to prepare a 
remediation plan for contaminated wells at Camp Lejeune, several years 
after the contamination was discovered and six years after one well, 
Well 602 near Hadnot Point, was permanently shut down by the Marine 
Corps because it was contaminated by benzene and other toxins.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesonline.com/bct_news/news_details/article/1373/2010/march/01/michael-baker-corp-responds-to-water-contamination-report.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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