Wells’ risk from landfill puts U.S., activists at odds

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Wells’ risk from landfill puts U.S., activists at odds
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, May 56, 2008

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — The large grassy hill beside the tank trail at Grafenwöhr Training Area might look like an old landfill. The sign as motorists pass the entrance might even say “landfill.” But, according to Army officials, the landfill is no longer a landfill.

“It is used for the segregation and shredding of waste prior to the delivery to a German waste incineration plant,” U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwöhr spokeswoman Susanne Bartsch wrote in an e-mail.

The site, Bartsch said, is now used for the collection and storage of larger amounts of hazardous waste that are later picked up by a licensed contractor and disposed of.

It poses no risk to the environment, she said.

But members of the environmental activist group Zusammenschluss umweltbewusster Bürger, or ZUB, disagree. They say the old landfill is poisoning the groundwater, and they’d like to see the trash removed.


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