2017 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 08:36:15 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] DIOXANE: Whidbey Island Naval Air Station (WA) plume spreads
 
Chemical plume in groundwater extends from Navy base to city

by JESSIE STENSLAND
Whidbey News Times (WA)
January 20, 2017
	

A mile-long plume of a chemical that’s a likely carcinogen has migrated in groundwater from a contaminated site at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island to within Oak Harbor city limits.

No drinking water wells are in imminent danger since the residents in the area are all hooked up to city water, which is piped in from the Skagit River.

Still, government agencies don’t want the plume of 1,4-dioxane to continue its southward creep under the city.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/chemical-plume-in-groundwater-extends-from-navy-base-to-city/

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