[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Final phase at Groton Naval Submarine Base (CT)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sub base cleanup reaches home stretch
Contamination removal has taken two decades; two areas left for work

By Judy Benson
The Day (CT)
June 20, 2011

Groton - After two decades and roughly $70 million worth of work, the  
environmental cleanup of the Naval Submarine Base is entering its  
final phase.

Named in 1990 to the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list  
of the nation's most contaminated sites, the base now has two main  
areas still in need of remediation of the dozens originally identified.

The contamination was caused by the indiscriminate dumping of  
petroleum products, solvents, paints, metals, tanks that held acids  
and other materials used on submarines, torpedoes and other equipment  
over the nearly 150 years the base has been in use by the Navy. All  
of this left polluted soils, groundwater and sediments offshore in  
the Thames River.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theday.com/article/20110620/NWS09/306209961/-1/NWS

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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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