[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, MUNITIONS: Weapon dumps off South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution, not explosions, big threat from weapon dumps off South Carolina, Navy diver says

By Bo Petersen 
Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
May 22, 2018

The real danger of disturbing hundreds of thousands of tons of unexploded bombs, poison gas and barrels of radioactive waste on the sea bottom off South Carolina is the cancer-causing pollution it would release, a former Navy bomb squad diver warned Tuesday.

The munitions, a legacy of post-World War II dumping of excess weapons, have lain offshore for years — unknown to the public at large, The Post and Courier reported in April.

The potential of one of the degraded bombs exploding is small, former diver Jim Barton said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/pollution-not-explosions-big-threat-from-weapon-dumps-off-south/article_3cbdd356-5d03-11e8-a02b-a35c29c11fe2.html

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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
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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