BREMERTON — Environmental officials are set to clean up a Washington stream after it spent decades as a U.S. Navy dumping ground.
The Kitsap Sun reports that the stretch of Gorst Creek is filled with rusty car parts, paint cans, batteries and plastic sheeting.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last began preparing last week for the removal of about 8,000 truckloads of trash from the 6-acre site.
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