[CPEO-MEF] SHIPBUILDING: Astoria Marine Construction Company (OR)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dry-dock Facility Might Be Listed As Superfund Site

By TYLER GRAF
Daily Astorian (OR)
December 6, 2011

Beneath the confluence of Jeffers Slough and the east bank of the  
Lewis and Clark River a slurry of chemicals from nine decades of boat  
building and repair have contaminated groundwater, sediments and soil.

Since March, the Environmental Protection Agency has slated the  
Astoria Marine Construction Company for addition to its Superfund  
site priorities list, a designation that could cost the owners  
hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in cleanup fees  
and environmental studies.

The boat-repair company that once received multimillion-dollar Navy  
contracts during World War II and the Korean War wants its previous  
insurance providers to front the costs for the study and cleanup, but  
the process of securing the money for that work has been slow going.


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For the entire article, see
http://news.opb.org//article/dry- 
dock_facility_might_be_listed_as_superfund_site/

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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