[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Government knew about contamination at Camp Minden [LA} in 1989"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA document says government knew about contamination at Camp Minden  
in 1989

By Chris Butler
Louisiana Watchdog
January 21, 2015

Government officials knew as far back as 1989 that explosive material  
stored at Camp Minden had already contaminated soil, surface water  
and groundwater around the plant, according to a memo written last  
summer.

As reported, Environmental Protection Agency officials plan to burn  
15 million pounds of M6 propellant explosives at the plant,  
originally designed for military use, into the northern Louisiana  
atmosphere.

People exposed to it might develop cancer or blood pressure problems  
or even pass on birth defects to their children, experts warn.

According to the EPA document, as of last year, Camp Minden had 1.8  
million pounds of an aluminum/TNT mixture.  In addition to the M6,  
the memo lists the camp as having other explosives and propellants.


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For the entire article, see
http://watchdog.org/194298/camp-minden/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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