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05-02-2008, 12:00 PM
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Free the leaf!!
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Boise
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Anybody live in Grandview? Lookout.
The US government is using this small town south of Boise as a dump site.
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By Jill Kuraitis, 4-30-08
The U.S. Army is shipping 6,700 tons of contaminated sand to Idaho from Kuwait. It will arrive at American Ecology in Grandview, Idaho, sometime in May.
Grandview, population 470, is 42 miles south of Boise in Owyhee County.
The sand is from Camp Doha in Kuwait, a former Army warehouse complex used by Army Forces Central Command. The sand absorbed depleted uranium when some spent ammunition was caught in a fire (addition May 1:during the first Gulf War.)
It’s also contaminated with hazardous levels of lead, according to the two military guys who told me the story, whose branch and names won’t be used for obvious reasons.
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