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Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs
    #5213661 - 01/23/06 10:27 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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WASHINGTON - Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contaminated water last year and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton, couldn?t get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal company documents.

Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, disputes the allegations about water problems at Camp Junction City, in Ramadi, even though they were made by its own employees and documented in company e-mails.

?We exposed a base camp population (military and civilian) to a water source that was not treated,? said a July 15, 2005, memo written by William Granger, the official for Halliburton?s KBR subsidiary who was in charge of water quality in Iraq and Kuwait.

?The level of contamination was roughly 2x the normal contamination of untreated water from the Euphrates River,? Granger wrote in one of several documents. The Associated Press obtained the documents from Senate Democrats who are holding a public inquiry into the allegations Monday.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who will chair the session, held a number of similar inquiries last year on contracting abuses in Iraq. He said Democrats were acting on their own because they had not been able to persuade Republican committee chairmen to investigate.

The company?s former water treatment expert at Camp Junction City said that he discovered the problem last March, a statement confirmed by his e-mail the day after he tested the water.

Bottled water used only for drinking
While bottled water was available for drinking, the contaminated water was used for virtually everything else, including handwashing, laundry, bathing and making coffee, said water expert Ben Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

Another former Halliburton employee who worked at the base, Ken May of Louisville, said there were numerous instances of diarrhea and stomach cramps ? problems he also suffered.

A spokeswoman for Halliburton said its own inspection found neither contaminated water nor medical evidence to substantiate reports of illnesses at the base. The company now operates its own water treatment plant there, spokeswoman Melissa Norcross said.

A military medical unit that visited Camp Ramadi in mid-April found nothing out of the ordinary in terms of water quality, said Marine Corps Maj. Tim Keefe, a military spokesman. Water-quality testing records from May 23 show the water within normal parameters, he said.

?The allegations appear not to have merit,? Keefe said.

Halliburton has contracts to provide a number of services to U.S. forces in Iraq and was responsible for the water quality at the base in Ramadi.

Year-long exposure?
Granger?s July 15 memo said the exposure had gone on for ?possibly a year? and added, ?I am not sure if any attempt to notify the exposed population was ever made.?

The first memo on the problem ? written by Carter to Halliburton officials on March 24, 2005 ? was an ?incident report? from tests Carter performed the previous day.

?It is my opinion that the water source is without question contaminated with numerous micro-organisms, including Coliform bacteria,? Carter wrote. ?There is little doubt that raw sewage is routinely dumped upstream of intake much less than the required 2 mile distance.

?Therefore, it is my conclusion that chlorination of our water tanks while certainly beneficial is not sufficient protection from parasitic exposure.?

Carter said he resigned in early April after Halliburton officials did not take any action to inform the camp population.

The water expert said he told company officials at the base that they would have to notify the military. ?They told me it was none of my concern and to keep my mouth shut,? he said.

?They brushed it under the carpet?
On at least one occasion, Carter said, he spoke to the chief military surgeon at the base, asking him whether he was aware of stomach problems afflicting people. He said the surgeon told him he would look into it.

?They brushed it under the carpet,? Carter said. ?I told everyone, ?Don?t take showers, use bottled water.?

A July 14, 2005, memo showed that Halliburton?s public relations department knew of the problem.

?I don?t want to turn it into a big issue right now,? staff member Jennifer Dellinger wrote in the memo, ?but if we end up getting some media calls I want to make sure we have all the facts so we are ready to respond.?

Halliburton?s performance in Iraq has been criticized in a number of military audits, and congressional Democrats have contended that the Bush administration has favored the company with noncompetitive contracts.




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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: 1stimer]
    #5213668 - 01/23/06 10:31 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

"Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney"


Biased reporting???


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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: lonestar2004]
    #5213719 - 01/23/06 10:56 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Is that a lie? I don't think so.

Water is either contaminated or not, regardless of the bias.

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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: Redstorm]
    #5213764 - 01/23/06 11:15 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

"Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney"



Germany, the country formerly led by Adolph Hitler.



not a lie, it just gets old.


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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: lonestar2004]
    #5213848 - 01/23/06 11:48 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

When I was in the field, I received contaminated water. My platoon received water that was not potable. I and a bunch of other Marines had a good dose of diaerria with a sour stomach.

I mean, ever have to get in a three point stance, in order to take a shit? It was horrible, blowing shit with the consistency of chunky soup out of your ass, at Mach 2, evey ten minutes.

The above story is nothing new. Logistics and the re supplying of troops always errors sometimes.

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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: lonestar2004]
    #5213913 - 01/23/06 12:12 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Yeah, I get what you're saying. I just try to ignore that sort of stuff in articles and read the stuff that isn't garbage.

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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: 1stimer]
    #5213923 - 01/23/06 12:18 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

As fucked up as it is, what can they do? Fine them? Just end up right back in their pocket.

If it were up to me, whether I was the President, or the CEO of Haliburton, I'd shoot someone over it. That should get the point across. The troops have enough shit to worry about(no pun intended) without getting fucked up necessities.


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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: lonestar2004]
    #5216231 - 01/23/06 11:48 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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lonestar2004 said:
"Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney"



Germany, the country formerly led by Adolph Hitler.



not a lie, it just gets old.



Agreed. It should have read:

"Haliburton, the company that Dick Cheney still holds stock options in..."


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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: 1stimer]
    #5216739 - 01/24/06 04:57 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

I feel bad for the troops that were exposed to the contaminated water, but these things do happen. Some of the stories that I have read, the headlines I should say, seemed to make the suggestion that Haliburton knew about this before hand but sent the water on along anyway.

Halliburton has its faults to be sure, but deliberately giving the troops contaminated water isn't one of them.

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Re: Halliburton sent contaminated water to GIs [Re: gregorio]
    #5216761 - 01/24/06 05:24 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

> but deliberately giving the troops contaminated water isn't one of them.

So in your mind there is a difference between deliberately delivering contaminated water and deliberately allowing contaminated water to be consumed?

I don't fault them for accidently delivering contaminated water. Hey, mistakes happen. However, when they later learned that the water was contaminated and then did nothing to prevent the water from being consumed, they entered the realm of criminal negligence. The claim that Halliburton covered it up, ignoring their own employees concern, makes it even worse.


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    #5217179 - 01/24/06 10:26 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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