[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Old dump site on Guam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemicals found at former military dump

by Nick Delgado
KUAM News (GU)
April 28, 2011

Guam - Petroleum hydrocarbons, benzopyrene, arsenic, lead, mercury  
and PCBs - all chemicals found in the surface soil of the Ibanez and  
Guerrero properties in Toto. While each are known to have negative  
impacts on human health, the Guam Environmental Protection Agency  
feels there is no immediate concern.

"We really have not found the levels that are high enough to actually  
impact the health so we continued to monitor what's out there," said  
an EPA representative. That conclusion was echoed from a final  
proposed plan released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As we  
reported, the property was once used as a military dumpsite, and for  
decades the families living there have been trying to get it cleaned up.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kuam.com/story/14529703/2011/04/28/chemicals-found-at- 
former-military-dump

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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
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