[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Kwajalein Missile Base Clean-up (Marshall Islands)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Site Investigations Announced for Kwajalein Missile Base Clean-up

Aenet Rowa
Yokwe (Marshall Island)
October 18, 2010

The Alaska native-owned company, Sivuniq, announced last month that it 
has been tasked by the the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command 
to help with environmental site investigations at nine locations on 
Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

"The Army is putting forth a good faith effort to clean up spills, 
restore the sites and make them productive," said project manager Norm 
Straub.

Six decades of military operations have left contamination on the 
islands at the atoll, said the company newsletter.

Kwajalein is home to USAKA (United States Army Kwajalein Atoll) and the 
premier missile facility, the Ronald Reagan Test Site (RTS).

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For the entire article, see
http://www.yokwe.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2697

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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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