[CPEO-MEF] MUNI: Lead contamination from Puualoa Range Training Facility (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nonprofit calls on Navy to address high lead contamination in waters off Ewa Beach

Hawaii News Now
October 4, 2022 

HONOLULU - A local non-profit is calling on the Navy to address high levels of lead contamination along the Puuloa shoreline in Ewa Beach.

Surfrider Foundation Oahu said they collected samples in the beach adjacent to the Puualoa Range Training Facility earlier this year. The results show lead concentrations of up to 14,000 mg/kg.

The nonprofit said that’s 70 times more than the accepted level for residential areas and over 17 times the accepted public health levels for industrial areas.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/10/05/nonprofit-calls-navy-address-high-lead-contamination-waters-off-ewa-beach/

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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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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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