[CPEO-MEF] Coast Guard: Curtis Bay Superfund site (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Coast Guard finishes cleanup of Curtis Bay Superfund site

By Pamela Wood
Baltimore Sun (MD)
May 30, 2013

After nearly a dozen years, $16 million and the removal of some 50,000 tons of contaminated dirt, the Coast Guard declared the Superfund site at the Coast Guard Yard south of Baltimore cleaned and ready for duty Thursday.

The yard landed on the Superfund list - a national registry of sites designated for federally supervised cleanup - after a century of building and repairing ships. Blasting paint off ships, storing oil and batteries, burning waste and dumping bilge left the ground polluted with dioxin, pesticides, metals, PCBs and other contaminants - some of which spilled into nearby Arundel Cove and Curtis Creek.

"This is a big one, because it's an industrial facility," said Rear Adm. Ronald J. Rabago, the Coast Guard's chief engineer. "Many years ago, people didn't understand what happened when oil went into the ground."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/glen-burnie/bs-md-ar-superfund-cleanup-20130530,0,1624113.story

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Lenny Siegel
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