[CPEO-MEF] PECHLORATE: Navy cleanup at Morris Dam, Angeles National Forest, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy plans to remove some, but not all contamination from Morris Dam

By Rebecca Kimitch
Whittier Daily News (CA)
October 4, 2009

For 50 years the waters behind Morris Dam were used to test Navy 
torpedoes. Now the Navy is dealing with the environmental costs of that 
top secret operation.

Arsenic, perchlorate and other contaminants are all that remain from the 
20-acre Navy facilities that occupied a peninsula in middle of the 
reservoir.

Navy operations there ceased in 1993. Officials have since been trying 
to determine the extent of contamination and what to do about it.

They are now proposing a $6.5 million plan to remove more than 17,000 
cubic yards of contaminated soil. But the plan leaves at least 15 to 20 
percent of some contamination behind.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_13485814

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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
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