2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 4 Feb 2006 00:04:43 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Mercury stockpile to be moved
 
Mercury leaving Hillsboro GSA Depot
Officials say mercury being moved to Army site in Nevada.
 

By PAMELA SROKA 
Bridgewater Courier News
February 3, 2006

HILLSBOROUGH -- About 2,883 tons of mercury being stored at the GSA
Depot on Route 206 will be transported to an Army depot in Nevada within
18 months, federal officials announced Thursday.

The move is expected to be announced officially at a 1 p.m. news
conference today at the South Somerville GSA Depot, which houses the
majority of the nation's stockpile of mercury.

The mercury stockpile became the focus of attention in 2000, when
township officials learned 210 additional tons of mercury were being
trucked in from a supply depot in Binghamton, N.Y.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060203/NEWS/602030322

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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