[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, GLOBAL: TCE and PCE found at South Korea base

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Excessive levels of hazardous chemicals detected in U.S. military camp

Yonhap News Agency (S. Korea)
August 5, 2011

CHILGOK, South Korea, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -- Excessive levels of  
hazardous chemical compounds have been detected from groundwater  
inside a U.S. military base in South Korea where drums of Agent  
Orange are suspected to have been buried decades ago, a joint  
investigation team said Friday.

However, the team said no traces of the controversial burial of the  
defoliant were found at Camp Carroll in Chilgok, some 300 kilometers  
southeast of Seoul.

The joint South Korea-U.S. team has been conducting tests of water  
and soil samples from the camp after some U.S. veterans claimed that  
they had buried drums of Agent Orange when they served there in 1978.

Releasing its test results, the team said trichloroethylene (TCE) and  
tetrachloroethylene (PCE), both health-threatening solvents believed  
to cause cancers, were detected from some of the underground wells  
they dug in the camp at more than average levels of 0.03 milligrams  
per liter.

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For the entire article, see
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/ 
2011/08/05/75/0301000000AEN20110805007500315F.HTML

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Lenny Siegel
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