[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, FUEL: "As progress at former Buxton naval site [NC] continues, another issue looms"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

As progress at former Buxton naval site continues, another issue looms
Erosion in Buxton has community members worried and taking action

By Will Thomas
WKTR TV-3 News (VA/NC)
December 6, 2024

BUXTON, N.C. — Fifteen months ago, the Buxton Beach access at Old Lighthouse Road was was closed due to the safety hazards presented by a former Navy submarine monitoring site.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been in charge of the project. Since September of this year, work on the project has rapidly progressed. Though the primary focus has been excavation of petroleum-impacted soil and water, with it has come the clean-up of numerous structures that the community had called for.

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To be exact, as of December 3, 3,426 cubic yards of petroleum-impacted soil, 61,526 gallons of petroleum-impacted water, 278,000 pounds of concrete, 1,153 feet of piping and 1,088 feet of debris/cables/wire have all been removed from the site.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/outer-banks/as-progress-at-former-buxton-naval-site-continues-another-issue-looms

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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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