[CPEO-BIF] Safeway Property, Cheyenne, Wyoming

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Another Round of Contamination Assessments for Safeway Property

By Michelle Dynes
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Waterworld)
September 8, 2009

CHEYENNE -- The groundwater contamination at 25th Street and Thomes 
Avenue will get a second look this fall.

Earlier this year, state lawmakers approved $2 million to begin 
environmental assessments of Wyoming's highest priority orphan sites. 
Cheyenne's site contains solvents that may have been dumped as far back 
as the 1950s, Bonnie Pierce from the Wyoming Department of Environmental 
Quality said.

The identified solvents are often used by dry cleaners. But it's 
difficult to track down the source when the problem is decades old and 
whatever business may have stood on the site is long gone.

With no responsible party, the site was labeled as an orphan under the 
2000 Orphan Site Remediation law. The legislation also required DEQ to 
create an inventory of every known orphan site in the state.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/news_display/s-135051359.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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