2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 27 Sep 2007 23:43:23 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Former Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, Charlestown, RI
 
Plan offered to remove tainted soil


By Maria Armental
Providence Journal (RI)
September 27, 2007

CHARLESTOWN - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposes to remove 830 cubic yards of contaminated soil, at a projected cost of $426,938, from a site within Charlestown’s former Naval Auxiliary Landing Field — today home to Ninigret Park.

The soil would be removed from an area about 200 feet east of Little Ninigret Pond, between greenway numbers 3 and 15 of the park’s disc golf course, from where five 25,000-gallon underground storage tanks reportedly used to store leaded, high octane aviation gasoline had been previously removed.

The area, known as site 8 and located some 1,500 feet from residential areas, was formerly used for flight-line fueling operations in the early 1940s.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/news/content/SC_CHTWN_NINIGRET_CONTAMINATION2_09-27-07_FT79GFB.34bbc96.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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