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...cause and manner of Mrs. Cole's death is a matter of active investigation by Brookline Police, the state's chief medical examiner and state police attached to this office," Norfolk County Assistant District Attorney John Kivlan told the Herald...
Paint-stripping and engine-maintenance operations present a more formidable challenge. At the Naval Air Engineering Center in Lakehurst, New Jersey, a plume of water contaminated by TCE solvent is leaking into the aquifer that supplies water to the southern part of the state. Investigations at the Norfolk Naval Base complex in Virginia are only partly completed, but it already appears that the Navy's biggest single installation may turn out to be its biggest contamination problem...
...toxic liquids and 500,000 cu. yds. of contaminated soil from one site at the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado cost $32 million; cleaning up the whole base is likely to top $1.5 billion. Digging out a single landfill the size of a tennis court at Norfolk cost $18 million, and there are 21 other identified sites. Removing 600 drums of buried toxic wastes at Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire cost $22 million. "We are only on the threshold in determining the bill," says Richard Jones, senior official on the Pease project. "In the cleanup business...
...prison program at Norfolk State Prison as a member of the Black Panther Party and worked with Phillips Brooks House...
Even with such disadvantages, there are profitable recycling operations. Three years ago, J.J. Hoyt, recycling manager at the U.S. Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, took over a solid-waste disposal program that had been costing taxpayers $1 million a year. A shrewd businessman, Hoyt was sensitive to hauling managers' needs and negotiated lucrative deals. Now, says one Navy officer, "not a tin can or newspaper falls to the ground on base." This year Hoyt's program is earning close to $800,000. "The key is knowing the market," he says...