Ft. Dix/McGuire AFB BOMARC Site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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TCE plume located

By SUSAN T. GAZZARA 
The Times (NJ)
Friday, June 18, 2004 

PLUMSTED - A saturated layer of peat some 50 feet underground is the
source of a plume of chemical contamination emerging from the
long-closed BOMARC missile site off Route 539, according to Air Force
environmental engineers. 

Engineer John Pohl said at a meeting of the McGuire Air Force Base
Restoration Advisory Board that a plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) -
discovered 17 years ago during evaluation work at the Boeing Michigan
Aeronautical Research Center facility - is coming from the layer of peat
at the eastern edge of the BOMARC compound. 

The BOMARC site is located on 75 acres of the Fort Dix military
reservation. While the Army owns the land, the site has been leased by
the Air Force since the BOMARC facility opened. 

The contaminated plume is spreading off Fort Dix property and into the
adjacent Colliers Mills Wildlife Refuge, Pohl said. The plume eventually
discharges into the Success Branch stream inside the wildlife refuge,
officials have said. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-1/108754604415840.xml

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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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