2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 13:10:14 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, RADIATION: "Army Shipping Contaminated Kuwait Sand to Idaho Landfill"
 
Army Shipping Contaminated Kuwait Sand to Idaho Landfill

By Jill Kuraitis
New West (MT)
April 30,2008

The U.S. Army is shipping 6,700 tons of contaminated sand to Idaho from Kuwait. It will arrive at American Ecology in Grandview, Idaho, sometime in May.

Grandview, population 470, is 42 miles south of Boise in Owyhee County.

The sand is from Camp Doha in Kuwait, a former Army warehouse complex used by Army Forces Central Command. The sand absorbed depleted uranium when some spent ammunition was caught in a fire (addition May 1: during the first Gulf War.)

It's also contaminated with hazardous levels of lead, according to the two military guys who told me the story, whose branch and names won't be used for obvious reasons. However, it's no secret, since the story had already been written by Erik Olson in the Longview, Washington Daily News.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newwest.net/city/article/army_shipping_contaminated_kuwait_sand_to_idaho_landfill1/C108/L108/

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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
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