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The Navy released recently a five-year review of an environmental restoration program at Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story, finding that environmental contamination of industrial solvents and arsenic at two sites is under control. “The Navy, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, concluded the measures are protective to human health and the environment for all .
Long-term management requirements were put in place by the Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 to monitor for further contamination after chemicals were detected in the groundwater and soil at Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The review, which ran from October 2022 to October 2023, looked for industrial solvents and arsenic in groundwater near an amphibious resupply cargo maintenance area and a site where the 80th Division Reserve trained.