[CPEO-MEF] WATER: Charleston Air Force Base (SC) sewage leak

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base spill totals 200,000 gallons

By Schuyler Kropf
Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
February 24, 2010

The working estimate of Sunday's raw sewage leak at Charleston Air Force 
Base, which also threatened the Ashley River, is about 200,000 gallons, 
an official said Tuesday.

The state health warning on recreational activities along a 10-mile 
stretch of the river in North Charleston will stay in effect 
indefinitely, while water quality testing continues.

Officials report the leak has been fixed and that the recovery process 
included using 24,000 gallons of disinfectant to clean wherever the 
sewage path went, including through a storm drain toward the river.

Not all of the leaked materials, which broke loose from a decaying North 
Charleston Sewer District line at the base, made it to the waterway.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/feb/24/base-spill-totals-200000-gallons/

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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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