[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: South KoreaL "Former US military base sites heavy with contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former US military base sites heavy with contamination
Almost 2/3 of environmental surveys since 2008 have revealed high pollution in water and soil

By Choi Hyun-june
The Hankoryeh (S. Korea)
October 13,2017 



Contamination sources have been detected in six out of ten environmental surveys on former US military bases returned to South Korea. Democratic Party lawmaker and National Assembly National Policy Committee member Park Chan-dae received a Ministry of Environment report on basic environmental studies for USFK-granted areas on Oct. 12 by way of the USFK base relocation support team in the Office for Government Policy Coordination. The report showed a total of 110 environment surveys on returned US bases between 2008 and 2017, with 66 of them confirming soil and/or underground water contamination.

The largest number of contamination sources were detected near Camp Market in Incheon’s Bupyeong district, where total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), xylene, copper, lead, zinc, and nickel were found in the ground and TPH and lead in underground water. TPH, toluene, xylene, and ethylbenzene were also detected in the ground near Camp Howes in Paju, Gyeonggi province, along with TPH in underground water.

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For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/814422.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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