[CPEO-IRF] Engineer Proving Ground (VA) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Clearing the Dirt
Remediation, contamination checks ongoing at EPG.

By Amber Healy
Springfield Connection (VA)
October 3, 2007


The countdown is on, and with each passing day, the September 2011 
deadline for changes at the Engineer Proving Ground in Springfield 
creeps ever closer.

Work began last week on the new office for 8,500 workers in the National 
Geospatial-Intellgence Agency, which will consolidate three offices into 
one on the EPG as mandated by Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) orders 
issued in 2005 and signed into law in 2006.

Before anything can be built on the 800-acre site, the Army must 
complete a thorough clean-up of the area, ensuring the soil is safe for 
construction and the workers who will one day populate the area.

"We are remediating all known ranges and doing some transecting of areas 
that were not known to be [artillery] ranges but may have some 
unexploded ordinances of any kind," said Jim Turkel, chief of the 
Belvoir Integration Office with the Army Corps of Engineers. According 
to him, clean-up is underway, going well, and the surprises have been 
few so far.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=88100&paper=72&cat=104

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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