[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Belvoir Engineering Proving Ground

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BRAC Deadline Haunts EPG Cleanup
Who builds the Parkway link remains a bone of contention.

By Chuck Hagee
Springfield Connection (VA)
February 14, 2007

Before 18,000 personnel head to the Engineering Proving Grounds (EPG) as 
part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Report (BRAC), the 
820-acre site must be "cleaned" of any potential decaying munitions and 
waste storage to make it environmentally safe.

That process has been ongoing for the past two years, not only to make 
the site ready for its new tenants but also for the construction of the 
last link of the Fairfax County Parkway planned to flow along EPG's 
southwestern perimeter. It will consume nearly 170 of the 820 acres.

That portion of the cleansing process is scheduled for completion next 
month, according to Donald Carr, public affairs officer at Fort Belvoir.

"The road portion of the clean-up is virtually done," Carr said. "There 
is only one site left that contains an old storage tank which remains to 
be cleaned up."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=77303&paper=72&cat=104

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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
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