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Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) Draft EIS (June 2007): Chemical
Constituents in Soils; Surface Water Quality; Groundwater Quality;
Ammunition, Live-Fire, and Unexploded Ordnance (UXO); Petroleum, Oils,
and Lubricants (POLs) and Storage Tanks; Contaminated and Installation
Restoration Program (IRP) Sites; Lead; Asbestos; Polychlorinated
Biphenols (PCBs); Pesticides/Herbicides; Radon; Hazardous Wastes. Del Monte fined $24,640 over pesticides. Honolulu Advertiser. June 14, 2007 |
California company a place
old pesticides go to find new sales, not die From its factory in Los Angeles'
industrial sprawl, Amvac Chemical does
a booming business selling some of the world's most dangerous
pesticides. Amvac has fueled double-digit revenue growth through an
unusual
business practice: It has bought from larger companies the rights to
older pesticides, many of them at risk of being banned or restricted
because of safety concerns. The company has fought to keep those
chemicals on the market as long as
possible, hiring scientists and lawyers to do battle with regulatory
agencies.
(Seattle Times. Sunday, April 22, 2007)
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Meat irradiation’s OK could
help Hawaii Honolulu Star Bulletin Editorial December 3, 1997 Harbor to Undergo Massive Cleanup KGMB August 29, 2001 Food irradiation Honolulu Star Bulletin Editorial February 16, 1999 |
| Safeway
fined over false pesticidal claims in Hawaii. Honolulu Advertiser.
July 5, 2007 |
Birth defects study ignores problems. Honolulu Advertiser August 4, 2002. Concerns raised over quality of Village Park water in past Honolulu Star-Bulletin July 8, 1999 | Irradiation of food wins federal approval Honolulu Star Bulletin Editorial December 16, 1999 |
| Health study likely to spur lawsuit: Residents of Village Park are told pesticides may be responsible for illnesses Honolulu Star-Bulletin September 16, 1999 | ||
| Michael Moriarty looks at the toxic legacy of agriculture in
the Aloha State A 1968 report by
the State Department of Agriculture titled
"Evaluation of Pesticide Problems in Hawaii" concluded that Hawaii used
pesticides at a rate fully 10 times higher than the national average.
Hawaii's pesticide consumption is three and a half times the per capita
national average and six times that of its nearest neighbour,
California- a major agricultural state. (Pacific Islands Monthly, December 1988) |
Few dangerous chemicals found in soil samples of two subdivisions: Residents of Village Park and West Loch Fairways search for the cause of increased illnesses Honolulu Star-Bulletin December 3, 1999 | Irradiation plant should
help farmers Honolulu Star Bulletin Editorial July 12, 2000 Oahu fruit is ripe for irradiation Honolulu Star Bulletin Editorial July 30, 2005 |
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Hawai`i's Most
Contaminated Site:
Walker Bay, Waipio Peninsula, O`ahu This pilau site is part of the Navy's Pearl Harbor Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), yet the geographic extent of the site, formerly used by O`ahu Sugar Company is yet to be defined. A fence was thrown up around what might be the site, but no meaningful activity has occurred in the past 6 years. According to Brewer Environmental Industries ''the former pesticide mixing area on Waipio Peninsula was used by the OSCO [Oahu Sugar Company] to mix pesticides and herbicide solutions, loaded into backpacks, trucks, or planes for dispersal into the sugar cane fields''. The highest hit for dioxin was 1530 part per billion (ppb). The EPA’s Industrial Land Soil Action Level is 10 ppb and the EPA's Residential Soil Action Level is 1 ppb. The site also contains high levels of furans. Dioxins and Furans are Persistent Organic Pollutants which rank among the most toxic man- made chemicals. The site contains significant levels of Semi Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) (benzo(a)anthracene, benzo(b)fluoranthene,benzo(a)pyrene,pentachlorophenol) Organic Chlorine Pesticides (4,4’-DDE, 4,4’-DDD and 4,4’-DDT); and Lead; and elevated levels of thallium; Volatile Organic Compounds (methylenechloride; 1,2,3-Tri chloro propane); 2,4,5-tri chlorophenoxycetic acid; and copper. (LOL October 2004 Newsletter) Depleted Uranium LOL Testimony (2003) UARC LOL Testimony (2006) |
Candidate for
Hawai`i's
Most Contaminated Off-shore Site: Hickam Air Force Base The US Navy's Pearl Harbor Sediment Study states that there is a toxic sediment hotspot adjacent to Hickam AFB, near the outfall of an Air Force Drainage System pipe. The Air Force's Installation Restoration Program has responded that unless the community can determine what site might be feeding contamination into their drainage system, they will not test their system to determine whether they are responsible for historic or continuing contamination of Mamala Bay. LOL is not sitting idly by. We continue to push for more testing of the area. Our coastal areas are precious and many people fish and crab along these areas, If you have, or know someone else who has, information of the current and historic uses in this area, please contact us immediately. (LOL October 2004 Newsletter) Chevron To Clean
Iwilei Pipeline Contamination
Village Park Contamination Schofield Barracks |
Dioxin
"Dioxin" is a shorthand name for the chemical 2,3,7,8, tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin or TCDD. It is also used as a common name for the entire family of PCBs, dioxins and furans, of which there are 400 types. Seventeen of these can be considered "super-toxic." Dioxin is the most toxic anthropogenic substance known to science. It has been the culprit in many of the most disastrous environmental cases, including Times Beach, Missouri; Love Canal, New York; Seveso, Italy; and Vietnam ("Agent Orange"). Dioxin is one of a larger class of compounds known as "organochlorines." Organochlorines are formed when chlorine binds with carbon in organic (carbon-containing) matter, in a reactive environment such as industrial production processes or incinerators. Organochlorines tend to be very long-lived, or persistent, in the environment. This class of chemicals also tends to be toxic, even in very small quantities; organochlorines also tend to bioaccumulate in the fatty tissue of living organisms. Dioxin, unlike some other 11,000 organochlorines manufactured for commercial sale by the world's chemical industry, is never intentionally produced. It is the by-product of many chemical, manufacturing, and combustion processes. Any use of chlorine in industrial processes, including incineration, chemical and plastic manufacturing, paper and pulp bleaching, or burning hazardous waste in cement kilns, results in dioxin formation. Dioxin levels were quite elevated in storm sewers adjacent to the Love Canal (up to 312 ppb) and in creek sediments (up to 14 ppb) and less elevated in soils (up to 6.7 ppb). Dioxin was not detected in the few soil samples taken in the EDA. The one location where dioxin was found at 17-35 ppb in the surface seven inches of soil coincides with the major swale investigated previously and is located at least 500 feet from the Love Canal. |
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Lualualei Waikele
The Navy did a 'trade deal' with Fluor Hawai`i to develop the Waikele Naval Magazine. The deal was that Fluor would put in the infrastructure on Ford Island in exchange for the land at Waikele, on which they plan to develop housing. LOL toured Waikele with the Navy and we specifically asked if nuclear weapons were stored in their huge bunkers. The Navy person said he 'couldn't confirm or deny' that, but Waikele is surrounded by a double fence and vicious dogs ran between the fences to protect the area when it was active. Reports from Village Park (northern Waipahu along Kunia Road) residents we have spoken to say that they heard 'trains' under their homes. LOL believes that nuclear weapons were transferred to Pearl Harbor nuclear subs in the tunnels along this route which we think connects Lualualei and Waikele to Pearl Harbor. So now Fluor Hawai`i is going develop this dirty land. Explosive idea, yeah? (LOL October 2004 Newsletter) |
`Aiea Laundry
This area, next to St. Elizabeth's Church is contaminated with Perchloroethylene (PCE), which is colorless, nonflammable, evaporates when exposed to air and dissolves SLIGHTLY in water (according the Navy literature). It was used as a dry cleaning solvent, used in printing inks, typewriter correction fluids and shoe polish. It enters the body through inhalation, dermal absorption (through pores of skin) and in the food and water we ingest. The community of St. Elizabeth's Church has a day care center in their basement and Life of the Land helped them push for more monitoring and clean up. The Navy had given the church such a run around that they ended up hiring their own consultant to interpret the documents back in the 90's. OUTRAGEOUS! And if this isn't enough, THE PCES HAVE GONE DOWN TO THE BAY! After speaking with some community folks to went to school in the area in the 60’s, we learned that some classes were held in `Aiea Laundry when an area school burned down. (LOL October 2004 Newsletter) |
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