[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "High lead levels in Annapolis creek are reminder that Navy can be a tough neighbor"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

High lead levels in Annapolis [MD] creek are reminder that Navy can be a tough neighbor
A Navy rifle range at Greenbury Point that dates back a hundred years is considered the likely source of lead contamination in creek sediment. Chesapeake Conservancy would like to see a Navy monument at the site.

By Rick Hutzell
Baltimore Banner (MD)
September 27, /2024


To probably no one’s surprise, a private survey of creek sediment next to Greenbury Point found signs of lead contamination. Its most likely source is the rifle range at Naval Support Activity Annapolis, the working Navy side of the Naval Academy that sits across the river.

CSI Environmental collected sediment samples this past spring along Carr Creek, a small waterway dividing the Navy station and the overgrown peninsula where the Severn River flows into the Chesapeake Bay. Lead was significantly above accepted health limits, and sufficient exposure can cause neurological disease and birth defects.

On Monday, area resident Jim Burdick asked the Maryland Department of the Environment to investigate and determine the source and extent of the contamination.

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For the entire column, see
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/column/greenbury-point-naval-academy-nsa-annapolis-5C7SIWKYVVBPFBG42RIKLQ5L3M/

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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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