US military fuel pipelines at Fukuoka Airport could raise Japan s decontamination costs
March 10, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
(Mainichi)
Fukuoka Airport still has facilities of the U.S. military (center background), where U.S. aircraft land and take off, as seen here on Feb. 3, 2021. (Mainichi/Masanori Hirakawa) FUKUOKA In addition to revelations that benzene and lead exceeding limits stipulated by the Soil Contamination Countermeasures Act were detected along fuel pipelines that were used when Fukuoka Airport was a U.S. military facility, it has emerged that pipelines had been laid in other areas of the airport. The Mainichi Shimbun obtained an image from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism that discloses where the pipelines were installed. The new information points to the possibility that pollution by toxic materials may be more widespread than previously known.
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