by Sonya Artero, KUAM NewsTuesday, May 09, 2006 Subscribe to Sonya's newsfeed
The Guam Environmental Protection Agency in conjunction with the United States Coast Guard, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Agriculture's Fish and Wildlife Division, is working on an investigation plan into the PCB contamination in Cocos Lagoon. The plan is due at the end of this month.This past February a fish consumption advisory was issued for the lagoon after fish samples tested high for levels of PCB. As we reported the PCB contamination is suspected to have come from the former Coast Guard Long-Range Navigation Station operated from 1944-1963 on Cocos Island.