[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, FUEL: North Charleston (SC) Navy tank farm

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfield testing
Charleston County wins federal grant

By Bo Petersen
Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
March 26, 2012

The old Tank Farm looks almost bucolic, with its rolling swales and  
old oaks. But when the huge fuel tanks were removed, questions remained.

The U.S. Navy stored nearly 300,000 barrels worth of petroleum fuel  
in six giant, earth-covered tanks on the 65-acre site on Carner  
Avenue in North Charleston.

When the tanks were taken out in the 1990s, there was controversy  
over how to clean up the site. Navy officials flatly conceded cost  
would be a factor in what they did.

The Tank Farm -- like a lot of other abandoned lots around the old  
Navy base, up and down the Neck area and across the county -- became  
a brownfield, a leftover, possibly polluted industry property. Nobody  
could really be sure just how safe it was to live, work or play there.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/mar/26/brownfield-testing/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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