2005 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 13 May 2005 03:56:53 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] BRAC bases on the "Superfund" National Priorities List
 
Dozens of closed military bases on EPA list of worst toxic sites

By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press (San Francisco Chronicle)
May 12, 2005

Thirty-four military bases shut down since 1988 are on the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list of worst toxic waste sites - most of them for at least 15 years - and not one is completely cleaned up.

As the latest base-closing commission begins its work, an examination by The Associated Press shows EPA is concerned with incomplete pollution cleanups at more than 100 Defense Department facilities. Other military-related cleanups are being led solely by states.

EPA lists 10 sites with problems such as groundwater contamination not yet fully under control. Five are in California; the others are in Arizona, Florida, Tennessee and Oregon.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/11/national/w232413D19.DTL

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