[Fwd: Re: More than a "Do-Nothing" Remedy]] (fwd)

[Center for Public Environmental Oversight <cpeo@cpeo.org>]

> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:45:03 -0500
> From: Richard Hugus <rhugus@cape.com>
>
> Why is CAREER/PRO making an effort to sponsor a project to inform the
> public about natural attenuation?
>
> At the Massachusetts Military Reservation the Air Force (AFCEE) is in the
> middle of conducting a rollback of previously agreed-upon standards of
> containment and eventual cleanup of large plumes of contaminated
> groundwater. Natural attenuation and the currency being given to it gave
> the Air Force the perfect means of doing this, not a month after EPA
> published its guidance on the subject. Soon it will be the remedy of choice
> everywhere. On Cape Cod natural attenuation of solvent plumes will work
> through disperal and dilutiuon only-no bio-degradation. Disperal and
> dilution does not reduce the mass of contaminants. It is not a cleanup. It
> IS a do-nothing approach.