Re: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: RDX "Water pollution resurfaces at Fort Jackson" (SC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution probe focuses on large area south of Fort Jackson

By SAMMY FRETWELL
The State (SC)
June 20, 2014

The U.S. Army is trying to determine whether pollution is spreading  
from Fort Jackson to nearby drinking water supplies or if past  
military activities off the base caused private well contamination in  
the area southeast of Columbia.

What military officials learn could help determine how to stop the  
groundwater pollution threat, including digging up and removing  
contaminated soil.

About 18,500 acres south of Fort Jackson were leased by the army  
training base more than 50 years ago, but the land today is sprinkled  
with homes and small businesses. The area under investigation is  
mostly east of the base’s Weston Lake, between Leesburg Road and  
Garners Ferry Road.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestate.com/2014/06/20/3521820/big-landmass-studied-for- 
pollution.html
On Jun 20, 2014, at 7:38 AM, Lenny Siegel wrote:

> Water pollution resurfaces at Fort Jackson
>
> By SAMMY FRETWELL
> The State (SC)
> June 19, 2014
>
>
> COLUMBIA, SC - The U.S. Army is working to protect private drinking  
> water supplies near Fort Jackson after finding elevated levels of a  
> seizure-causing chemical in wells that serve five homes near the  
> expansive military site.
>
> Fort Jackson released the results of well water tests this week,  
> showing that royal demolition explosive, or RDX, had been detected  
> in higher amounts than the military base found during well water  
> tests earlier this year.
>
> The area of concern is along the fort’s southern boundary, east of  
> Weston Lake and south of Leesburg Road. Two other chemicals also  
> were detected in recent test results.
>
> ...
>
> For the entire article, see
> http://www.thestate.com/2014/06/19/3518878/water-pollution- 
> resurfaces-at.html?sp=/99/132/
>
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>
> Lenny Siegel
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> a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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
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