[CPEO-MEF] "Seoul to sue [South Korea] central government for US base cleanup costs"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Seoul to sue central government for US base cleanup costs

By Kim Da-sol
Korea Herald
July 24, 2017

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will file a lawsuit against the central government for the cost of cleaning up contaminated underground water near the US military base in Yongsan, central Seoul. 

The city government is seeking compensation of 540 million won ($480,000) for the cost of purifying oil-contaminated groundwater around Camp Kim and near Noksapyeong Station. 

According to the city government’s internal inspection last year, the average benzene concentration near Yongsan Garrison recorded 8.811 milligrams per liter, approximately 587 times higher than the permissible level of 0.015 milligrams per liter.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170724000777

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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