[CPEO-BIF] "Work to remove contaminated soil from Hidden Lane Landfill Superfund site to begin next week, " Sterling, Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work to remove contaminated soil from Hidden Lane Landfill Superfund site to begin next week

By Scott Gelman 
WTOP (Washington, DC region)
February 17, 2024

Starting next week, the Environmental Protection Agency will begin removing contaminated soil from the Hidden Lane Landfill Superfund site in Sterling, Virginia.

The excavation is scheduled to start Feb. 20, the agency said in a news release.

The site has been on the agency’s national priorities list since 2008, Remedial Project Manager Austin Oelschlager said.

In the next phase, the agency will work to excavate soil contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE), which is a known carcinogen that was used to clean metal parts. The focus area is the base of the landfill, Oelschlager said, and the contaminated soil will be disposed of away from the site.



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For the entire story, see
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/02/work-to-remove-contaminated-soil-from-hidden-lane-landfill-superfund-site-to-begin-next-week/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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