[CPEO-IRF] Devens (MA) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Devens landfill cleanup awaits final water testing

BY KAREN MANN
Lowell Sun (MA)
August 12, 2005

SHIRLEY -- The ?pump-and-treat? system being used to clean water under
Shepley's Hill landfill in Devens could be up and running this month,
according to the head of the project. 

The system is ?getting close to being operational,? said Bob Simeone,
the environmental coordinator for the Base Realignment and Closure
agency. 

At last night's meeting of Devens Restoration Advisory Board in Shirley,
Simeone said that final tests are being done in the coming weeks, the
last of which will be an extraction test. This is slated to happen the
week of Aug. 22. If all goes well, the pump-and-treat process will start
a few days later, beginning a cleanup the environmental coordinator says
could take decades. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lowellsun.com/local/ci_2936356

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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