[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "Yongsan [South Korea] US base shows high water pollution level above threshold: govt."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Yongsan US base shows high water pollution level above threshold: govt.

By Yonhap
Korea Herald
November 29, 2017


The US military base in central Seoul has groundwater contaminated with harmful petroleum chemicals up to hundreds of times above the permissible limit, government reports showed Wednesday. 

The Ministries of Environment and Foreign Affairs revealed the environmental reports on the US Yongsan base conducted twice earlier in the year, a move that followed an appellate court ruling made early this month in favor of civic groups that sought the public disclosure of the reports.

The reports are based on the water sample analysis collected from dozens of tubular wells in and outside the US base. One survey was done in January-February, and another in August, which tested for five toxic substances, including benzene, toluene, xylene and ethylbenzene. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20171129000770

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