[CPEO-MEF] LANDFILLS: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (WA) off-site dump

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to Navy: Fix issues at former dump

By Associated Press
Columbian (WA)
October 16, 2014

PORT ORCHARD - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered  
the Navy to fix problems associated with a former hazardous waste  
dump near Port Orchard.

The EPA says its records show that a substantial amount of the waste  
in Gorst Creek Ravine is from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The  
landfill was the main dumping ground for shipyard waste between 1969  
and 1970, when the site was not permitted by local authorities to  
take waste, the agency said. It later took waste from local residents  
before closing in 1989.

"I think we can say that the Navy is by far the largest single  
generator of waste in that landfill," Jeffry Rodin, EPA's on-scene  
coordinator, said.

The EPA's order issued Tuesday says the Navy may be responsible for  
generating about 85 percent of the 150,000 cubic yards of waste at  
the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/oct/16/epa-to-navy-fix-issues-at- 
former-dump/

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Lenny Siegel
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