Devens groundwater cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Solvent remediation at former Moore airfield nears takeoff

By C. David Gordon  
Harvard Hillside (MA)
June 25, 2004 

DEVENS -- The contractor working to clean up chlorinated solvents in
groundwater at the former Army airfield has started work on the 100
percent design milestone of the remediation plans.

Once the complete plans are approved, the full-scale remediation effort
can move ahead at the former airfield. At the June 17, Devens
Restoration Advisory Board meeting, contractor Arcadis G&M's project
manager, Chuck Castelluccio, presented details of the 60 percent
remedial design milestone now completed.

The plan as presented has no new elements. Reports of results from the
bio-remediation pilot test, in place for over a year now, show continued
neutralization of the hazardous chemical, dry cleaning fluid used on
parachutes. This remediation process will be repeated in additional
transects along the plume of contamination.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.harvardhillside.com/Stories/0,1413,108~5342~2234839,00.html

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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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