2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:59:47 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, FUEL: Seoul, South Korea groundwater treatment
 
Underground water pollution serious near US bases in Seoul

By Kim Rahn
Korea Times
June 7, 2011

The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it has removed about 2,000 tons of oil-contaminated underground water around U.S. Army bases in the capital area over the last decade.

568 liters of floating oil and 1,970 tons of polluted underground water have been extracted since 2001 near two U.S. camps in central Seoul - Yongsan Garrison and Camp Kim.

The revelation came amid growing public anxiety over the alleged burial of toxic defoliant in Camp Carroll in North Gyeongsang Province in the 1970s by the U.S. Army.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/06/117_88489.html

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