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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.
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 ...
The NRDL was formed in 1946 to manage testing, decontamination, and disposition of US Navy ships contaminated by the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in the Pacific. [1] A number of ships that survived the atomic detonations were towed to Hunter's Point for detailed study and decontamination. Some of the ships were cleaned and sold for scrap.
The US Navy acknowledged last month that the drinking and bathing water on one of its aircraft carriers was contaminated by jet fuel. The US Navy acknowledged last month that the drinking and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cruise ships, large tankers, and bulk cargo carriers use a tremendous amount of ballast water, which is often taken on in the coastal waters in one region after ships discharge wastewater or unload cargo, and discharged at the next port of call, wherever more cargo is loaded.
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 ...