From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:16:34 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "More soil contamination found at former U.S. forces site in Okinawa" (Japan) |
More soil contamination found at former U.S. forces site in Okinawa Kyodo News International Global Post June 21, 2013More soil contamination from fossil fuel has been found on land formerly occupied by a U.S. military facility in Okinawa and there are fears that the contaminants have spread via groundwater, according to an inspection report of the local defense bureau obtained Saturday by Kyodo News. Contamination by what appeared to be jet fuel and gasoline was found in the northern part of Camp Kuwae, according to the Okinawa Defense Bureau's report for this year. Some of the land used by the base was handed back to Japan in 2003. ... For the entire article, seehttp://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/ 130621/more-soil-contamination-found-at-former-us-forces-site You may need to copy and paste the link. -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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