2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:23:34 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PCBs, GLOBAL: Agana Springs (Guam) Naval water pump station
 
PCB cleanup under way: Soil removed from Agana Springs site

Arvin Temkar
Pacific Daily News (GU)
December 17, 2011
Tons of dirt has been removed from the area surrounding an old Agana Springs water pump station and shipped off to hazardous waste sites.

Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began an on-the- ground effort to rid the area of contaminated soil, said Michelle Rogow, the on-scene coordinator for the EPA.

Agana Springs was home to a Naval water pump station that relied on oil containing polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, a cancer-causing chemical, for its equipment. At some point -- no one is sure when -- there was a spill, leaking the PCBs into the ground. The EPA learned about the contamination in 2007, after receiving a military assessment. U.S. EPA has been working on the Agana Springs case for at least two years now.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20111217/NEWS01/112170302

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