Ft. Detrick Landfill Remediated

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Chemical Dump at Fort Detrick Cleaned Up 

Associated Press (WTOP Radio - MD)
June  8, 2004  

FREDERICK, Md.  - The Army says a World War II-era chemical dump site
that caused contamination near Fort Detrick has been cleaned up. 

Monday's announcement came nearly 12 years and $26 million after health
agencies first complained of polluted groundwater at the site. 

Congressional, state and military officials praised the environmental
restoration Monday. The project dated to the discovery of
trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) buried in landfills
in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. 

U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes said he urged the Army to make the soil cleanup
a priority. "This is one of those projects that got more complex rather
than less as it moved along," he said. 

The problems began in 1992, when the Maryland Department of the
Environment and the Frederick County Health Department discovered
chemical contamination in private wells outside the base. The Army began
delivering bottled water to affected residents and connected others to
the city water supply while environmental engineers tried to track the
source of the pollution. 

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for the entire story, see
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=211185


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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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