2019 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:46:06 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Hand grenade toxin pollutes water near Fort Jackson" (SC)
 
Hand grenade toxin pollutes water near Fort Jackson. But where is it coming from?

BY SAMMY FRETWELL
The State (SC)
NOVEMBER 13, 2019

During a 12-year period beginning in 1964, soldiers at Fort Jackson fired rockets and tossed hand grenades on the base’s southern boundary, just across Leesburg Road from a community that today is living with a chemical threat the explosives left behind.

Those explosives, used to train soldiers, contained a poisonous compound that has polluted 31 wells and remains a potential threat to the drinking water of more than 100 others, officials at Fort Jackson say.

The fort released information Tuesday night that traces the source of groundwater contamination to an explosives range known as Kasserine Pass, just east of the fort’s landmark Weston Lake and north of homes across Leesburg Road.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/environment/article237295739.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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