2014 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 01:25:41 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] DUMP SITES: Honolulu (HI) high school on old Navy dump site
 
Radford High track off limits because of hazardous waste contamination

By Tim Sakahara
HawaiiNewsNow
April 2, 2014

HONOLULU - Radford High School's athletic field is the focus of a toxic waste cleanup. Although state health officials say there is no risk to students, staff or parents.

It wasn't exactly the way Radford High School wanted to kickoff construction of its new track, but serious soil contamination has sidelined work at the facility.

Radford has been trying to get a new track for 20 plus years. Now that construction started on the $2.2 million job it's already stopped because of a significant amount of lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury found underground.

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The area used to be a crater, but the military bulldozed it and made it a dump site. Later Radford was built in the 1950's. The football and baseball fields were inside that landfill area.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25146938/soil-contaminants-halt- radford-high-track-and-field-renovation

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