[CPEO-MEF] SURFACE WATER: "Toxic Military Wastes Haunt Lake Superior"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Military Wastes Haunt Lake Superior

John LaForge
Nukewatch
January, 2013

Between 1957 and 1962 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers secretly  
dumped at least 1,457 barrels of hazardous waste into Lake Superior  
along the North Shore near Duluth, Minnesota.1,2 The military waste -  
between 350 and 440 tons - came from Honeywell, Inc.'s Twin Cities  
Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP) in Arden Hills, Minnesota. All but a  
few dozen of the drums are still in the water, and less than 600 have  
ever been located.

High rates of cancer and other debilitating disease among people  
drinking water from Lake Superior, as documented by the Centers for  
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),3 could partly be the result of  
this covert and reckless government-sponsored waste dumping. One  
radiation survey by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),  
an independent submarine-based radiation examination and formal  
records from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) show that  
17 of Honeywell’s toxic chemicals, including benzene, chromium, PCBs  
and radiation-emitting materials, were dumped into Lake Superior by  
the Army Corps.

The dumping area was named a federal Superfund site in 1977, although  
the threat posed by the toxins hidden in the barrels has been given a  
low priori

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To download this report, go to
http://www.nukewatchinfo.org/barrels/BARREL%20REPORT%20JAN%202013.pdf

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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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