[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, FORMER SITES: "Drums found buried at former Cold War Navy base on NC’s Outer Banks, officials say"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Drums found buried at former Cold War Navy base on NC’s Outer Banks, officials say 

By Mark Price 
Charlotte Observer (NC)
June 4, 2026

A secretive Cold War operation once located on North Carolina’s Outer Banks may have surrendered its last secret, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

After three years of searching for the source of contamination in the soil, engineers located eight buried drums.

“Some drums were empty, and some contained a mixed-petroleum product. The drums were found near an area that was labeled on older maps as a drum storage area,” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, told The Charlotte Observer in an email.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article316005768.html


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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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