[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, FORMER SITES: "Buried military site emerges on NC’s Outer Banks, prompting beach contamination alert"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Buried military site emerges on NC’s Outer Banks, prompting beach contamination alert 

BY MARK PRICE 
Raleigh News & Observer (NC)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A stretch of Outer Banks beach within North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore was closed Thursday, Sept. 5, due to contamination bubbling up from a long-buried military base, according to National Park Service officials. 

The closure covers approximately half a mile in the Buxton area, not far from the historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. “Over the last 24-36 hours, several feet of sand have been washed away from an area of beach,” the park wrote in a news release. 

“Soil and groundwater that is apparently contaminated with petroleum from historic military use of the site is now exposed to the beachfront during low tide, and wave action during high tide.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article291971190.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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