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Hawaii firm will analyze Cocos Lagoon PCBs
The United States Coast Guard and the Guam Environmental Protection Agency have contracted a company out of Hawaii to begin additional soil, water and fish sampling in the Cocos Lagoon. This past February a fish consumption advisory was issued for the lagoon after fish samples tested high for levels of PCBs. The contamination is suspected to have come from the former Coast Guard Long-Range Navigation Station that operated from 1944 to 1963 on Cocos Island.
Element Environmental will conduct the additional testing to develop a better idea of the extent of the contamination issues. The company should be on Guam around mid-July.
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