[CPEO-IRF] Memphis Defense Depot (TN) waste excavation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Depot site cleaner than expected

d toxins not present at disposal area
By Tom Charlier
Memphis Commercial Appeal (TN)
May 28, 2006

They dug up some strange stuff at a 60-year-old disposal site at the old 
Defense Depot Memphis.

But perhaps most significant to cleanup officials are the things that 
weren't found.

In a yearlong cleanup operation that concluded this spring, crews 
excavated 4,400 tons of waste from Dunn Field, a 68-acre tract on the 
northwest corner of the South Memphis facility. The material included 
crushed metal drums and 3,000 bottles of a compound used to test water 
for the presence of chlorine.

But absent from the recovered wastes were some potentially dangerous 
substances listed in military records as having been buried at the site: 
1,700 bottles of fuming nitric acid, thousands of gallons of insecticide 
and dozens of drums of oil, grease and thinner.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/local/article/0,2845,MCA_25340_4733413,00.html
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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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