2019 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 14:39:55 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: South Korea to clean up Camp Market, Incheon
 
Defense ministry kicks off clean-up at Incheon USFK base

By Jung Da-min
Korea Times
May 24, 2019 

The Ministry of National Defense said Friday it has kicked off a clean-up project for Camp Market, a contaminated U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) base in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, scheduled for return to South Korea.

The state-run Korea Environment Corporation through assessment and bidding selected a consortium led by Hyundai Engineering and Construction for the project, with the consortium aiming to complete the clean-up process by 2022 after a pilot test using miniaturized equipment. 

The initial findings of the contamination, made in October 2017 through on-site surveys by the Ministry of Environment, showed the presence of dioxins at all 33 survey sites in areas used for the U.S. military's Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO) inside the Camp Market site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2019/05/119_269450.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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