BOMARC accident site cleaned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Contaminated soil removal complete 

By: Scott Morgan
Bordentown Register-News (NJ)
June 24, 2004

The last known contaminated soil has been removed from the site of a
1960 nuclear silo fire at Fort Dix. 

FORT DIX - Air Force officials announced last week that ground crews
have removed the last known contaminated soil from the site of a 1960
nuclear silo fire.

Maj. John Dorrian, an Air Force spokesman, said the last trainload of
soil known to have been contaminated when a BOMARC missile caught fire
in July 1960 was shipped by rail to a treatment site in Utah on May 27.
The $23.2 million cleanup, which ultimately shipped nearly 22,000 cubic
yards of tainted ground to Utah, began in April 2002.

Maj. Dorrian stopped short of calling work at the site - which covers 75
acres crossing McGuire Air Force Base, Fort Dix and Plumsted Township,
Ocean County - completed. Rather, he said the Air Force will continue to
monitor the site to assure that it does not find any more contamination.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12080114&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425707&rfi=6

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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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