[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "At Yongsan [South Korea] US military base, ground pollutants 500 times normal levels"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

At Yongsan US military base, ground pollutants 500 times normal levels

By Choi Woo-ri
Hankyoreh (S. Korea)
December 26, 2016

Grounds still contaminated despite cleanup efforts, and results of three environmental surveys have not been made public

Levels of benzene, total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), and other contaminants were detected at over 500 times the standard in underground water around Yongsan Garrison.

Despite Seoul Metropolitan Government spending over 500 million won (US$419,800) a year since 2004 to clean it up, contaminated underground water continues to be found each year as the inability to

Members of civic groups hold a press conference in front of the Yongsan US military base in Seoul, calling on South Korea’s Ministry of Environment to make public the results of an investigation into environmental contamination on the base, and for the US military to take responsibility for cleaning up any contamination, Aug. 17. The participants claimed that there is contaminated groundwater on the Yongsan base, and a smell of gasoline.


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For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/776155.html

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Lenny Siegel
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