[CPEO-MEF] Marine housing, Kaneohe Bay (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution worries dog Marine home project

Honolulu Advertiser (HI)
May 9, 2006

KAILUA - A nearly completed housing project on Marine Corps Base Hawai'i 
will add 212 units on the Windward installation, opening more homes to 
Marine families on a waiting list.

The $50 million project for junior enlisted personnel at Pahonua, near 
the back gate of the base, is a year behind schedule. It also has raised 
concerns about chlordane contamination in the soil and prompted Walter 
Chun, the project's safety and environmental consultant, to ask the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency for an investigation.

The EPA standard that triggers a need for further investigation for 
chlordane contamination is 1.6 parts per million. Navy Environmental 
Health Center experts determined that as much as 32 ppm in the soil is 
safe for families living in the units, said Don Rochon, spokesman for 
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060509/NEWS11/605090360/1021/NEWS

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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