[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, GLOBAL: Waste removed from Saipan's (CNMI) Capital Hill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Massive cleanup of contaminated site on Capital Hill

By Haidee V. Eugenio
Saipan Tribune (CNMI)
February 8, 2012

Tons of soil believed contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls,  
lead, organochlorine pesticides, diesel, motor oil, and other toxic  
chemicals dumped during and after World War II are now being  
extracted from the I-Denni area on Capital Hill for off-island  
shipment and disposal, some nine years after the federal government  
completed a $20-million cleanup that rid Tanapag of over of 40,000  
tons of PCB-laced soil.

Several dozens of jumbo white sacks containing contaminated soil were  
located by the entrance to the I-Denni removal site. The white sacks  
are labeled, “Non-RCRA Regulated Waste,” and the shipper is the U.S.  
Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District.

Big trucks carrying soil were seen leaving the site, which was off- 
limits to the media as of yesterday afternoon.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=116374&cat=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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