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  2. List of trichloroethylene-related incidents - Wikipedia

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    Between 1975 and 1985, the water supply of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune was contaminated with trichloroethylene and other volatile organic compounds. [10]In 1986, and later again in 2009, 2 plumes containing trichloroethylene was found on Long Island, New York due to Northrop Grumman's Bethpage factories that worked in conjunction with the United States Navy during the 1930s and 1940s.

  3. Navy says EPA report that found low-level contamination ... - AOL

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    The Navy shut off the Red Hill well, but fuel made its way into the Navy’s water system. Several families affected by the spill took the U.S. government to court this summer as part of a mass ...

  4. Navy Says It Has Found the Source of Water Contamination ...

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    The Navy says water from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's bilges, a type of drainage system, leaked into drinking water on the ship. Navy Says It Has Found the Source of Water ...

  5. Regulation of ship pollution in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Section 311 of the Clean Water Act, as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, [18] applies to ships and prohibits discharge of oil or hazardous substances in harmful quantities into or upon U.S. navigable waters, or into or upon the waters of the contiguous zone, or which may affect natural resources in the U.S. EEZ (extending 200 miles (320 ...

  6. MARPOL 73/78 - Wikipedia

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    List of the MARPOL 73/78 Annexes Annex Title Entry into force [1] [5] No. of Contracting Parties/States [1] α % of the World Tonnage [1] β; Annex I: Prevention of pollution by oil & oily water: 2 October 1983: Annex II: Control of pollution by noxious liquid substances in bulk: 6 April 1987: Annex III

  7. Sailors on US Navy flattops have been drinking and bathing in ...

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    The US Navy recently acknowledged it found jet fuel in the drinking water aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Veteran sailors and Marines told Insider that contaminated water has been ...

  8. Ballast water discharge and the environment - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing the water pollution of the seas from untreated ballast water discharges. Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment. The discharge of ballast water and sediments by ships is governed globally under the Ballast Water Management Convention, since its

  9. Navy report: Multiple errors poisoned Pearl Harbor water - AOL

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    The investigation is the first detailed account of how jet fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, a massive World War II-era military-run tank farm in the hills above Pearl Harbor ...