[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Malibu (CA) school contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PEER Claims Malibu School Contamination May Stem From World War II Uses

by Brenton Garen
Santa Monica Mirror (CA)
February 25, 2014

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) on Tuesday  
said military operations may explain the contaminated soils found on  
campus during a 2011 environmental assessment and soil removal  
project at Malibu Middle and High Schools and Juan Cabrillo  
Elementary School.

PEER said the U.S. Army conducted training on land occupied or  
adjacent to the current school sites during World War II.

PEER said that contamination had neither been explained nor further  
investigated.

In a letter today to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District  
(SMMUSD), PEER again stressed the need to conduct a site assessment  
covering the entire three-school campus to determine the extent and  
the source of toxic chemicals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.smmirror.com/articles/News/PEER-Claims-Malibu-School- 
Contamination-May-Stem-From-World-War-II-Uses/39610


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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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