2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 26 Nov 2007 15:42:35 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Chamberlain Manufacturing, Waterloo, Iowa
 
City, EPA take aim at contaminated Chamberlain Manufacturing site

By TIM JAMISON
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (IA)
November 25, 2007


WATERLOO --- Gary Wilcox wasn't entirely prepared for what he found when 
returning to tour the Chamberlain Manufacturing site.

The former manager of safety and environmental engineering --- who 
worked for the company from 1969 to 1991 --- saw collapsed roofs, trees 
sprouting through concrete alleys and twisted and snarled piping where 
scrap metal collectors ripped generators or air-conditioning units from 
their foundations.

Vandals and those stealing from the site left their mark, including 
holes in security fencing around the orphaned industrial complex that 
includes 22 buildings along East Fourth Street next to Gates Park.

...

The state of affairs is a far cry from Chamberlain's heyday during the 
Vietnam War when more than 800 workers earned a living manufacturing 
bombs for the United States' war machine.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/11/25/news/metro/8f232384816d55618625739e0018f256.txt
-- 


Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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